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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…
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…
National dialogue needed on school shootings
It has been determined that students who commit mass murder in educational institutions don’t just snap, but in fact spend considerable time planning the attack in great detail. Sometimes they leave notes detailing what they intend to do and giving reasons why they are waging a kind of war against people they have spent considerable…
Let’s stop the carnage in classrooms
Considering the spectrum or range of violence that can occur in the school environment, it is vital that full and open dialogue take place to identify the problems and weaknesses so solutions can be formulated that will virtually assure students are protected. The book points out this is not a United States issue or a…
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…