School

Violence 

Cartoon
Analysis #5
Vanessa Bagolor
EDU 201 – 1001
February 25, 2022
A comparison of the
past and present
Different times with the same
things being brought up and
spoke.
Who's who?

The name card says

principal, so the man must
be the principal of the kid's
school.

It is her kids;
therefore she is their
mother.
The Mother
Mother is dressed and
covered, almost head-to-
toe. She has tears in her
eyes and her hair tied
back.
Differently dressed,
Same topic of
discussion.
The mother is dressed up. Her
skin is more exposed. Her
hair is up. She is dressed to
go to yoga with her yoga mat
and her 'yoga' t-shirt. She is
wearing heeled shoes.
The change in the mother may be due
to the rise in feminism because then a
mother's life would revolve around
their children their role as a stay-at-
home mom and now a mother can
juggle a career or extend their social
lives. 
Mother's Body Language

Tears are in her eyes and

hands are around her The mother has her hands up in a
son.  shrug position, so though her
reasoning should be obvious and
reasonable to the principal.

The mother's change in body language

with the difference in time may suggest
the reactions of the situation has
desensitized parents with their
concerns the same but the situation
unchanged.
The Principal
The principal is dressed in a
suit in tie with glasses, and hair
well groomed.

The principal is shirtless,

smoking, wearing a helmet with
tattoos, abs and a scar over his
His desk area contains the
eye.
American flag, a picture of
Abraham Lincoln, and a
His desk has barbed wire
container of pens.
around. There are illustrations
of explosions
Abraham Lincoln is famous
for freeing the slaves and his This may suggest he has a
Gettysburg Address, where he military background. 
claimed the Civil War was
also a fight for freedom and
equality for all. He also said
the phrase "government of the
people, by the people, for the The change between then and now
people" suggests principals or schools are
more gun-positive or military-
positive. 
The Children
The kids are looking up at the
principal in concern and
standing by their mother with
her concerns.
The girl stands behind the
principal's leg but reaches out for
her mother. It is as though she
wants her mother's comfort but is
forced to stand by the principal.
She still holds the baby in her
arms.

The boy is a close copy of the

principal in his dressed state while
holding a gun. He is turned away
from his mother and symbolically
The children now
blind to his mother's concerns.
stand behind the
principal, like their
position and views on
the situation are now
different.
School Violence Data

 In 2017, about 5% of students surveyed reported being subject to physical bullying

behavior
 Students' fear of harm has decreased. From 2001 to 2017, students who reported being
afraid of attack or harm at school went down from 6% to 4% of students.
 In 2018, 71% of schools reported at least one incident of a violent crime.
 From 1994 to 2018, multiple-victim homicides per 100,000 fluctuated and is increasing.
 The CCSD reports the number of violent acts this year has surpassed 5,000
 Source: KTNV Las Vegas

  Source: the National Institute of Justice

Number of K-12 school shootings in the United States
from 1970 to December 2021, by active shooter status

Source: Statista
Conversation
Mother wants are opposite
from the actions shown. His
position and body beside
the principal is like the
boy's actions are
encouraged by the
principal.
The term "out of the
question" suggests that the
possibility to remove terror,
guns, and violence from
school is an impossibility.
Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing
(STOP) School Violence Program
 STOP School Violence Act of 2018
 Purpose is to improve school security by giving students and teachers the funds needed to
recognize, respond, and prevent violence.
 Training 
 Tech Solutions
 Assessment & Intervention Teams
 For States, Local Governments, and Native American Tribes
 Source: Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance
Programs to Improve School Safety

 Physical Surveillance 
 School Policies
 Instruction-Based Programs
 Counseling
 Conflict mediation and resolution

 Source: RAND corporation


The conversion itself has
stayed the same, which goes to
show while everything looks
different, the problems are still
the same with no possibility of
change in sight.
The mother represents the change in
times, from old and traditional to
today's modern. 
The principal represents the part of
society that has become more second
amendment positive. Also, he is the
government's lack of action against
school violence
The kids represent the general
reactions of students. Kids then were
equally as concerned with their
parents. Now kids either embrace the
idea of guns and violence or are
unable to seek comfort against it. 
Sources / References

 https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-do-data-reveal-about-violence-schools#note19 
 http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm 
 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-delivers-gettysburg-address 
 https://www.alfred.edu/about/news/studies/lethal-school-violence/can-we-prevent.cfm 
 https://bja.ojp.gov/program/stop-school-violence-program/overview 
 https://www.ktnv.com/news/education/community-wide-effort-needed-to-tackle-ccsd-school-violence 
 https://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP219.html 
 https://www.statista.com/statistics/971473/number-k-12-school-shootings-us/