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Crime in Schools: Government or Parental Responsibility?

December 18, 2009

Guide Offers Communities Ways To Prevent and Respond to School Violence

Crime in America.Net, http://crimeinamerica.net
Gentlereaders: Everything you wanted to know about school violence including documentation of infamous school crime shootings are cited in the Department of Justice publication listed below. The problem, as always, is in the details.
The publication warns of children falling into the following categories: 

“Failure [...]

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School Crime:10 percent of male students reported being threatened or injured with a weapon

December 11, 2009

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2009
Presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals. A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from [...]

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Safe Schools Initiative Works

November 17, 2009

Evaluation Finds that Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Significantly Improves Student Safety
On November 3, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued the following press release:
Rockville, MD – In the wake of several recent highly-publicized stories about violence among school-aged children, a new report shows that [...]

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American schools were always violent

October 29, 2009

 
Posted on Wed, Oct. 14, 2009
Commentary
Strife is not new to the schoolhouse, but guns are.
By Jonathan Zimmerman

Four boys assault their teacher, who later dies of her injuries. Across the country, newspapers compete to unearth the most lurid details of the episode. It seems the boys were annoyed at being detained after school.
So they threw rocks [...]

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