Political Quotes

“I rise today sadly to support this legislation, which offers our condolences to the families and friends of those involved in the shooting last week at Santana High School in my home state of California. I want to personally express my deepest sympathies to the families of all the victims at Santee High School. Regrettably, another incident of school violence has left one of our communities grieving and looking for a way to prevent another terrible tragedy like the one that occurred in Santee. The bill before us today encourages communities to implement a wide variety of violence prevention services for our Nation's youth. I feel that one of the best violence prevention services is ensuring that we have adequate counselors available in our schools for troubled youth. While we may never know what causes some children to feel that violence is their only option to solve their problems, I believe that having a strong support system in place will show students that they have a safe place to go to when they are troubled. School counselors, psychologists, and social workers play a vital role in counseling students. As important as these counselors are, there are far too few of them in our schools. In some States, the ratio of students to counselors is over 1100 to 1, although the National Academy of Sciences recommends that ratio to be no higher than 250 to 1.…”