Here is everywhere!
Jeff Peterson, Lakewood District School Superintendent, when asked about Chandon Ohio’s School System where 5 students were shot resulting in 3 deaths.
Here is everywhere!
Two teachers were killed at a high school in Malmo southern Sweden. An 18-year-old student was arrested on suspicion of murder. The attacker had been carrying an ax, a knife and hammer. “The head of the Malmo police, Petra Stenkula said “Such crimes are uncommon in Sweden”. In the past year there have been a series of attacks in the country’s schools.
On January 10, the police arrested a 16-year-old after he knifed a teacher and a fellow student. Last August, a masked 15-year-old boy with a camera on his helmet knifed a teacher at a middle school in Eslov.
Everytown for Gun Safety, reports that the “first half of the 2021-2022 school year had the most gun violence in recent years”. As students returned to schools, many brought with them their frustrations for being denied in-person learning. Violence has been pouring into school building and neighborhoods. There has been an increase particularly, in gun-related violence.
My book, Preventing School Violence: A User’s Guide, available through Amazon, addresses this problem and proposes a number of simple-to-implement strategies and solutions to prevent school violence.
Schools need to get ahead of the curve and work on preventing school violence rather than reacting to it once it has occurred.