Abstract:
This study involved assessing measures put in place to curb school violence. School violence has been
increasing in the recent years and this research project sought to examine the following objectives; to
find out how parent and community involvement can help in preventing school violence, to examine
how guidance and counseling can prevent school violence and to determine how rules and regulations
can prevent school violence. These objectives helped us to gather information on the measures that
have been put in place to curb rampant school violence in the area of study. The study employed
inferential analysis and descriptive analysis that aimed in drawing conclusions concerning the
relationships and differences found in research results. The main objective of this research study
was to examine the measures that have been adopted to curb school violence, which has been a
problem in Nyamira County, Manga sub-county. The research questions of the study helped to
break down the study into small manageable parts that enabled us answer the research problem.
Target population was 107 schools. Simple random sampling technique was used to obtain 88
respondents. The method of data collection that was used is questionnaires. In analyzing data, the SPSS
was used. The findings showed that the parent and the community are greatly involved in curbing school
violence, guidance and counselling plays an important role in curbing school violence and also school
rules and regulations are put in place in schools but there are also cases of violence. Therefore, the study
concluded that despite these measures that have been put to curb rampant school violence, there is also
greater need of putting more effort in preventing school violence. The results showed that guidance and
counselling, school rules and regulations and parent and community involvement are positively related.