School Violence Statistics
04/18/2007 03:51 a.m.
What happened yesterday tears at my heart.

It also brings home the research I've been working on for the past month on safe schools/school violence and behavior interventions.

Since 1996, there have been 36 shootings at schools in the US alone. In these incidents 95 people have lost their lives and 128 have been wounded. In 2000, a six year old shot and killed another six year old at an elementary school!

Violent crime in our society as a whole has remained fairly stable, but violent crimes among juveniles has risen dramatically. (I haven't had the opportunity to trace this infor to the original study, but have the reference for the study in which I found it).

I'm a parent, and a teacher, and what I feel when listening to news reports, or while doing this research is so hard to explain... I'm saddened, sickened, angry, sympathetic, empathetic... the list goes on... and I wish SO badly that I could "fix" the problem.

But just as there are a mirage of factors that contribute to the violence, there is no one solution... but it's blatantly obvious, that what we're doing isn't working effectively, it just isn't enough!
I am currently Depressed