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Information from Center for Disease Control
The Center for Disease Control has some very interesting facts related to school violence. The organization also accurately points out that you must have all the facts before working toward prevention. Check out their web page for additional details. http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/youthviolence/schoolviolence/data_stats.html Please ShareTwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogleTumblrRedditEmail
Don’t lose focus of the prime objective to protect students in their classrooms
Positive comments and concrete suggestions are needed to improve safety and security in schools and to prevent shootings in classrooms. This article in Popular Science magazine and the comments it generated show how the discussion can switch focus and end up in quagmire. There is a need for full debate of all issues with 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…
History from the book – Canada’s first school shooting
The book – Keep Kids Safe: Don’t Let Our Schools Become Killing Zones – details the history of school shootings from Scotland to Sandy Hook. The first slaying in Canada was in 1902. The book reveals: The earliest school shooting in Canada occurred when a 14-year-old girl was killed by a classmate on the doorstep…
News release for newly published book – Keep Kids Safe: Don’t Let Our Schools Become Killing Zones
To ensure students are protected in classrooms, corridors and on their campus much more must be done to improve the safety and security of schools, colleges and universities. That’s the message in a newly published book – Keep Kids Safe: Don’t Let Our Schools Becoming Killing Zones – by Canadian author Cal Millar. Since the…
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…