One teacher’s mission: Buy back violence and burn it

Prevention is better than cure: To minimise students' exposure to violence, Florida teacher Jackie Chism has created a programme to buy back violent games and films. - MCT

To stop kids' exposure to violence, teacher Jackie Chism has created a programme to wean students off violent games and movies – she buys them and burns them.

Jackie Chism, a teacher at Jackson Heights Middle School in Florida, has long believed that violent movies and video games make teens more accepting of violence. But on the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012, Chism says she had seen enough.