A study released this week in Puerto Rico shows an alarming trend of 10th-12th graders carrying guns to school whereby teachers are afraid of their students, and violence to solve problems is readily practiced.
The study was done by the Josephson Institute of Ethics for the government who was trying to figure out why one in every four high school student is absent – the answer is FEAR.
The study found that 28 percent of all Puerto Rican 10th-12th graders carry some type of a firearm to school, that 52 percent of this demographic admits to hitting someone in school if they felt insulted and a majority of high school teachers are afraid of the very students they have to teach.
Governor Luis Fortuño is working with a group of religious organizations and community leaders to identify strategies to deter the young from a path of violence.
