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Ruffin Middle School Principal Harry Jenkins said he also is very concerned about the effect a criminal charge can have on a child's future, with the potential to limit their aspirations in terms of a job or military career.He also said that once students enter the juvenile system, it is difficult for them to get out.
While middle schools nationally tend to have a higher rate of violence than elementary or high schools, in Jenkins' rural Colleton County middle school of 360 students, where he taught many of the students' parents, almost all discipline is handled in school, he said.The level of parental involvement is in direct correlation with the success of in-school discipline measures.
"I think the solution is, it takes the whole village to raise the child," Jenkins said.