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Details from Amazon on soon to be published book – Keep Kids Safe
This book takes a critical look at school shootings across North America and around the world and calls for a national dialogue to come up with recommendations to improve safety and security in schools and to protect students in classrooms. From Newtown to Littleton and from Virginia Tech to Northern Illinois University, the book looks…
Don’t let our schools become killing zones
Since the massacre at Newtown there have been more than a dozen shootings on school campuses across North America. The time is now for positive dialogue to identify solutions that will protect young people in their classrooms. Parents must have a high level of comfort that their children will be safe when they send them…
Co-operation needed to find solutions
The focus of politicians is a need for stricter gun controls to protect children from harm. They point to the violence in Chicago, Detroit and other major cities and the hundreds of young people who are being murdered each year. Rather than seeking to restrict guns from law abiding citizens, the emphasis should be getting…
Cases examined in book
Keep Kids Safe takes an indepth look at school shootings in Dunblane, Scotland, Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Red Lake, Minnesota, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and at Platte Canyon High School in Park County, Colorado. It also examines what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and the impact not only on the…
New book publishing date
The 490 page book – Keep Kids Safe – will be available through Amazon.com on August 1, 2013. It contains background on numerous school shootings across North America and other parts of the world and reveals details of what’s needed to help communities cope with such tragedies. From the first recorded school shooting in the…
Out of the box thinking needed to curb school violence
Looking at the various inquiries, government reviews and judicial hearings into mass killings and targeted violence in educational facilities, it is interesting to note that evidence was collected from law enforcement and first responder personnel, educational officials, school and safety experts as well as representatives from government at all levels. Left out of the equation…