Letter to the editor: Reducing violence, starting with schools

This is in response to your editorial “Truth is kids need to be safe from gun violence”. The truth is kids need to be safe from all violence, and schools should use education to try to make it so.

We should be using schools to reduce violence throughout life with at least two goals in mind: That eventually the number of people using domestic violence shelters will drop. And that eventually fewer people will be incarcerated each year for committing acts of violence.

We now have dozens of high schools nationwide that have police stationed in them because of violence. Yet it’s unlikely even one of those schools tried to use education with their students to make them less violent. It’s almost as though educators don’t believe in their own product — education.

Reducing violence would help Pennsylvania’s economy, and with fewer people experiencing the gloom of violence, it could be a happier place.

Steve Kokette

Madison, Wis.

The writer is director and producer of the documentary “One Punch Homicide.”