| School Violence From fistfights in the playground to talking back in class, violence in schools not only interferes with learning, it also can lead to chronic disciplinary problems and widespread youth violence. While “reading, writing and arithmetic” have long been known as the fundamentals of education, many schools have added “respect” and “responsibility” to the academic curriculum in an ongoing effort to curb school violence. Children must learn, early on, that violence does not constitute acceptable behavior in society. Young children who learn to solve problems non-violently are likely to carry that approach into adolescence and adulthood. Students, parents and school staffers alike can make that happen by creating an environment that promotes an understanding of the consequences of violence, as well as the importance of violence prevention. |
| More than 15,600 public and private school students in grades 6 through 10 participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) study – the first large-scale study of bullying among American school children, reported in the April 2003 Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Bullying is repeated, aggressive behavior done to hurt someone. Hitting and pushing are two examples of physical bullying. But bullying can also be verbal or psychological, such as when a bully repeatedly taunts another child, or threatens, intimidates or spreads rumors about the child. Nearly 17 percent of U.S. school children are bullied by other students in school. Early findings of the NICHD study offer a glimpse of bullies, their victims and behaviors:
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| Troubling Consequences More is being discovered about the consequences of bullying and the news is troubling. The NICHD study indicates that bullies and their victims are at higher risk of engaging in more aggressive and violent behaviors while they are in school and after school. But it is the bullies – particularly boys – who run the greatest risk of behaving more aggressively or violently. Fighting in school:
Weapons in school:
may have contributed to the deadly school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, in 1999 and at Santana High School in Santee, CA, two years later. The NICHD study also reports that bullies are more likely to become violent away from school, where there is less adult supervision. More than 70 percent of boys who said they bullied others away from school reported having carried a weapon and nearly 45 percent said they were frequently involved in fights. |
| Timeline of incidents School violence around the world Updated: May 18, 2007 May 5, 2007: El Maton, TX A 15-year-old female high school student committed suicide by a .38-caliber gunshot to the head in a school restroom. Her body was found by another student from her band class who checked the restroom after the student left and did not return. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 2, 2007: Newark, DE A 31-year-old female bus driver was found stabbed to death on her school bus which was pulled over to the side of the road shortly after she left the school bus depot to start picking up middle school students. A boyfriend was reportedly in custody being interviewed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 18, 2007: Huntersville, NC A 16-year-old male high school student made threatened two high school students with a gun in their school's parking lot and then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide, when police subsequently approached him in a nearby gas station. Police alerted four schools in the area, which went into lockdown. Counselors were made available at the school upon students' return. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 16, 2007: Blacksburg, Virginia During the early morning hours of April 16, a gunman went on a rampage on the Virginia Tech campus. By the time he was done, 32 students and faculty members were dead and 25 people were injured; some by Cho's bullets, others when they jumped from second-story windows to escape.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 23, 2007: Los Angeles, CA A 17-year-old male high school student was stabbed to death during a fight outside the school's gym with three other males around 3:00pm. The suspects were reportedly 16 to 17 years old. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 7, 2007: Midland, MI A 17-year-old male non-student shot a 17-year-old female student four times and then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide in her high school's parking lot The female was reportedly an ex-girlfriend of the male. Reports indicate the male drove to the school to talk with the female but was turned away by school officials, after which he called her out to the parking lot to talk with him. He pulled a gun and shot her four times, which was witnessed by the girl's mother who was in her car and drove between them. The female was taken to the hospital and reported to be in serious, but stable, condition. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 7, 2007: Greenville, TX A 16-year-old male high school student fatally shot himself while in the band hallway area of the school around 7:15am. No other students were injured. More than 100 parents rushed to the school to remove their students. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 26, 2007: St. Louis, MO A 15-year-old male high school student was killed and a 16-year-old male student shot outside the home of an 18-year-old student in the afternoon following an altercation that began earlier in the day at their high school. A crowd gathered outside the home to watch a fight and the 18-year-old stood in the door with a baseball bat, according to reports. After rocks and rolled newspapers were thrown at the house, the 18-year-old reappeared with a rifle and his 51-year-old mother with a handgun, and both opened fire. The 15-year-old was killed and the 16-year-old was injured. Counselors and additional security measures were put in place at the school for the following days. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 17, 2007: Flint, MI A 26-year-old male was shot in the head in a parking lot of an elementary school where he was visiting for an adult basketball league that rents the gym. The male later died. Police arrested three people. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 8, 2007: Prineville, OR An 18-year-old male high school student committed suicide with a gunshot wound to the head in the high school's parking lot. He was found by a student around 2:30pm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 26, 2007: Los Angeles, CA An 18-year-old male was shot in the upper body three times and died while playing basketball in a middle school gym around 5:50pm. Police were seeking three suspects who fled after the shooting. The identity of the victim and his association with the school was not immediately identified. Dozens of people were present but not injured, according to reports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 19, 2007: Sudbury, MA A 15-year-old male high school student was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old male student in the hallway of their high school. The two reportedly got into a fight in a restroom which spilled out in the hallway, at which time the suspect stabbed the victim twice with a long knife, once in the abdomen and once in the heart. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 3, 2007: Tacoma, WA An 18-year-old male high school student was arrested for shooting and killing a 17-year-old male student at their school. The suspect allegedly shot the victim in the face and then stood over him, firing twice more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 12, 2006: Springfield Township, PA A 16-year-old male high school shot and killed himself with an AK-47 in the hallway of his high school. The student, reportedly despondent over his grades, had the gun concealed in a camouflage duffle bag and fired one round in the ceiling to warn other students to get out of the way before committing suicide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 29, 2006: Houston, TX A 16-year-old male high school student was shot to death behind the school while walking to school in the morning. Reports indicated the incident was believed to be gang-related. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 20, 2006: An 18-year-old masked former student of The Geschwister School in Emsdetten, Germany (near the Dutch border) stormed the school three students aged 12 to 15, a female teacher and the janitor were shot. Several of the injuries were serious, but none was life-threatening. The gunman, reported to be an 18-year-old former student, was later found dead with explosives attached to his body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 1, 2006: Fresno, CA A 13-year-old male middle school student died as a result of an after-school fight in a parking lot near the school. The incident reportedly stemmed from an ongoing conflict with a 14-year- old male student who was fighting with him. The victim was knocked to the ground and then hit afterwards, and the assailant left. The 13-year-old later died from the injuries. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 31, 2006: Knoxville, TN A 39-year-old male school security officer was shot and killed around 10:20pm in his high school's parking lot while assigned to patrol the school to prevent Halloween vandalism. A 39- year-old suspect was arrested after a police pursuit of the suspect who stole the victim's car. The suspect claimed he was a homeless man from Virginia, but police reported he was from Galax and may have pending charges for another murder. School officials reported that the officer was a very close member of the school "family" and connected well with students at the high school, who were torn by his loss. Grief counselors were to be on hand the next day at the school. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 19, 2006: Orlando, FL A 15-year-old male high school student was stabbed with a 3 to 3 and 1/2 inch knife with a serrated edge by another 17-year-old male student at the school, according to reports. The incident happened on the east side of the school near the sidewalk in the area of the school buses, reports said. The two males fought and the victim was stabbed during the fight, after which he was transported to the hospital where he subsequently died. Students reported the two males may have had a conflict over a girl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts, 32, took 10 girls hostage in an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them before killing himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sept. 29, 2006: Eric Hainstock, 15, took two guns into his Cazenovia, Wi., school and fatally shot the principal before being captured and arrested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sept. 27, 2006: Duane Morrison, 53, took six girls hostage at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Co., molesting them and holding them for hours before fatally shooting one girl and then himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 13, 2006: A 25-year-old man (Kimveer Gill of Laval, near Montreal) who mounted a deadly shooting rampage at a Montreal college had posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling “crazy” and “postal” and was drinking whiskey hours before the attack. The man also said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die “in a hail of gunfire.” In the end, the attacker — dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters — put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College on Wednesday, police said. By that time, he had already wounded 20 other people — one of whom, an 18-year-old woman, later died. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 25, 2006: Essex, VT A 27-year-old male shot and killed a 56-year-old second-grade teacher in her elementary school classroom. The male was looking for his ex-girlfriend, who also is a teacher at the school, who had reportedly broken up with her the night before the incident. A 52-year-old female first-grade teacher was also shot through a window. The suspect also had reportedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend's mother, age 57. The 39 staff in the building reportedly moved to lock down the school. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 17, 2006: Austin, TX A 21-year-old male was shot and killed in middle school parking lot in what police believed to be a gang-related dispute. The incident occurred during evening hours as a group of youth were preparing for a Quinceañera, a 15th birthday party celebration. A 20-year-old and a 17- year-old were subsequently arrested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ August 14, 2006: Moreno Valley, CA A 25-year-old security guard was found shot to death around 6:15pm at an elementary school which he had been hired to guard from vandals and taggers. No students were at the school as the incident occurred during summer break. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 8, 2005: Assistant principal Ken Bruce was killed and two other administrators seriously wounded when Kenny Bartley, a 15-year-old student, opened fire in a Jacksboro, Tennessee high school. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mar 21, 2005: Jeff Weise, 16, shot to death his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend and then went to his high school in Red Lake, Minnesota, where he killed a security guard, a teacher, and five students, and wounded seven others, before killing himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nov. 24, 2004: James Lewerke, a 15-year-old student at Valparaiso High School in northern Indiana, pulled two large knives out of his pants and stabbed seven of his classmates. None of the injuries was life-threatening. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 7, 2004: Four teenagers leaving a charity basketball game at their Randallstown, Maryland, high school were wounded, one critically, in a drive-by shooting. Among the suspects was a 17-year-old student at the school who had been involved in an earlier incident over a girl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apr. 3, 2004: A shot was fired from a passing car through the glass front door of the Accelerated Learnin and Transition Academy in Houston. About 200 students were in the school at the time but no one was injured. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feb. 11, 2004: Ten-year-old Faheem Thomas-Childs was shot in the face outside T.M. Peirce Elementary School in Philadelphia. He died six days after the shooting. He was caught in a shootout between two rival gangs. The gun battle unleashed nearly 100 shots in the area as children were arriving at the school. A school crossing guard was also injured. Two men were arrested for the shooting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feb. 2, 2004: 17-year-old James Richardson was shot to death in Ballou Senior High School in Washington D.C. during second period. The shooting resulted from a confrontation with another student who was arrested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan. 13, 2004: Following an argument, a 19-year-old entered Northern High School in Detroit and shot Aaron Wilson, 18, six times in the leg. Neither teen was a student at the school. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nov. 14, 2003: A 15-year-old student accidently fired a handgun outside the East Mecklenburg High School (North Carolina) cafeteria injuring two students. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct. 30, 2003: 16-year-old Devin Fowlkes was shot to death in front of Anacostia Senior High School in Washington D.C. as he left a homecoming dance along with a crowd of students. Another student was slightly injured. A 15-year-old, who said he was aiming at someone else, was arrested and charged with murder. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 26, 2003: A 13-year-old boy fired a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun into the ceiling of a Cleveland County, North Carolina, middle school. He also fired one shot into the closed door of a classroom filled with students. No one was injured. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 24, 2003: Aaron Rollins, 17, was killed and Seth Bartell, 14, was critically wounded when 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin walked out of a locker room at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minn., and shot them with a .22-caliber gun he had in his gym bag. Bartell died Oct. 10. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 24, 2003: In Red Lion, Pa., 14-year old James Sheets shot and killed his middle school principal Eugene Segro in a crowded school cafeteria and then killed himself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 14, 2003: Gunmen armed with an AK-47 rifle and a handgun opened fire in the packed gymnasium of John McDonogh Senior High School in New Orleans. Jonathan Williams, 15, was killed and three girls were wounded in a spray of bullets. It was thought to be a revenge killing for an earlier murder. A loaded handgun was found on the victim. Four suspects were arrested. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 29, 2002: 17-year-old Dragoslav Petkovic opened fire with a handgun shortly after noon at his high school in Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing one teacher and wounding another before taking his own life. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 26, 2002: 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled from Johann Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, Germany, returned to the school and shot to death 13 teachers, two students and a police officer before killing himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 19, 2002: A 22-year-old gunman in Munich, Germany, killed his former boss and a foreman at the company that fired him, then went to a high school in a Munich suburb, where he shot the school's headmaster when he was unable to find the teacher he was after. He then shot another teacher in the face and set off homemade bombs before killing himself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 15, 2002: Two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan, were seriously wounded when a teenager opened fire at the school. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 13, 2001: Chris Buschbacher, 17, went to the Caro (Mich.) Learning Center armed with a . 22-caliber rifle and a 20-gauge shotgun, taking a student and a teacher hostage. During a three-hour standoff, he fired two shots. The hostages were eventually released but Buschbacher, who was reportedly despondent over a breakup with his girlfriend, shot himself as police prepared to enter the building. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 8, 2001: Mamoru Takuma forced his way into Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka, Japan, stabbed to death eight students and injured 13 others. Takuma, who had a long history of mental illness, pleaded guilty to the crimes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 30, 2001: Neal Boyd IV, 16, was shot to death outside Lew Wallace High School in Gary, Ind., where he was a student. 17-year-old Donald R. Burt Jr. was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 57 years in prison. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 22, 2001: Four students and two teachers were wounded at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Ca. None of the injuries were life-threatening. One of the wounded students, 18-year- old Jason Hoffman, was the alleged assailant. The shooting took place in a San Diego suburb just seven miles from the March 5th high school shooting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 7, 2001: An 8th-grade girl shot a 13-year-old classmate during lunch at Bishop Neumann Junior-Senior High School in Williamsport, Pa. The suspect was arrested and the injuries were not considered life-threatening. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 26, 2001: An arson fire at the Kyanguli Secondary school in Kenya killed 67 students. Two students were charged with murder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 5, 2001: 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams was arrested for killing two classmates, and wounding 13 other people, at Santana High School in Santee, Calif. In August 2002, he received a 50-year to life sentence. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 2, 2001: Two students and a teachers were reportedly grazed by gunfire at Osborn High School in Detroit. The victims were not seriously hurt, and no suspect was caught. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 17, 2001: Juan Matthews, 17, died after being shot three times while standing in front of Lake Clifton Eastern High School in Baltimore. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct. 24, 2000: An armed teen-ager briefly held a classroom full of children and a teacher hostage at Pioneer Elementary School in Glendale, Ariz., before surrendering to authorities. There were no injuries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 26, 2000: A 13-year-old and a 15-year-old were critically wounded when they shot each other with the same gun. The shootings occured during a fight at Woodson Middle School in New Orleans, La. The gun had been slipped through a fence to one of the students by a 13- year-old who had been expelled from the school. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 17, 2000: In Renton, Wash., near Seattle, a 13-year-old boy was charged with shooting a handgun into the ceiling of the school cafeteria. More than 100 students were in the cafeteria at the time, but no one was injured. The boy, later identified as Josh Warnock, fled and was taken into custody at the home of his grandparents the following day -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 26, 2000: In Lake Worth, Fla., 13-year-old honor student Nathaniel Brazill shot a teacher in the face, killing him. Police said the seventh-grader had been sent home for throwing water balloons and returned to the school with a handgun he found in his grandfather's dresser -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 10, 2000:19-year-old Stacy Smalls and 16-year-old Ramone Kimble died from gunshot wounds they suffered as they were leaving a dance honoring the Savannah, Ga. Beach High School girls basketball state championship team. Darrell Ingram, 19, was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 29, 2000: A first-grade boy at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Mich., fatally shot classmate Kayla Rolland, 6, after the two children had a verbal spat. He took the . 32-caliber handgun from his uncle's home, where he was living. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec. 6, 1999: Seth Trickey, 13, fired at least 15-rounds at Fort Gibson Middle School in Fort Gibson, Okla., wounding four classmates. He was convicted on seven assault charges. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 19, 1999: A 13-year-old girl was shot in the head in school at Deming, New Mexico. She died the next day. 12-year-old Victor Cordova Jr. pleaded guilty to the shooting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 20, 1999: T.J. Solomon, 15, opened fire at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., wounding six students. Solomon pleaded guilty but mentally ill and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 28, 1999: A 14-year-old who had been bullied by his classmates, opened fire at W.R., Myers high school in Taber, Alberta, Canada, killing a 17-year-old student and wounding another student. The boy, who was obsessed with the Columbine shootings, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder and, in November 2000, was sentenced to three-years in jail. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 20, 1999: Columbine High School students Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, went on a shooting rampage, killing 12 of their classmates and one teacher, a Hoosier native, in Littleton, Colo. Klebold and Harris then kill themselves. The massacre was the bloodiest school shooting in U.S. history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 15, 1998: A male teacher and a female guidance counselor were shot in a hallway at a Richmond, Va., high school. Neither was seriously injured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 21, 1998: Two students were killed and more than 20 other people wounded when Kip Kinkel, 15, opened fire at Thurston High School's cafeteria in Springfield, Ore. Earlier that day, he killed his parents. He had been expelled the day before for bringing a gun to school. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 21, 1998: Miles Fox,15, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Onalaska, Wash. Earlier in the day, he boarded a high school bus with a gun in hand, ordered his girlfriend off the bus and took her to his home, where he shot himself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 21, 1998: A 15-year-old girl was shot and wounded at a suburban Houston, Tx., high school when a gun in the backpack of a 17-year-old boy discharged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 19, 1998: Three days before graduation, 18-year-old honor student Jacob Davis allegedly opened fire in a parking lot at Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tenn., killing a classmate who was dating his ex-girlfriend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 28, 1998: Two teen-age boys were shot to death and a third was wounded as they played basketball at a Pomona, Calif., elementary school hours after classes had ended. An unidentified 14-year-old boy was charged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr. 24, 1998: A 48-year-old science teacher was shot to death in front of students at a graduation dance in Edinboro, Pa. Andrew Wurst, a 14-year-old student at James W. Parker Middle School, was charged. The killer was later described as depressed, alienated and a boy who never smiled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 24, 1998: Four girls and a teacher were shot to death and 10 others wounded during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark. Two boys, Andrew Golden, 11, and Mitchell Johnson, 13, were accused of setting off the alarm and then opening fire from a nearby woods. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec. 1, 1997: Three students were killed and five others wounded as they took part in a prayer circle in a hallway at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. Michael Carneal, 14, described as emotionally immature, plead guilty but mentally ill and was sentenced to life.. One of the wounded girls was paralyzed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct. 1, 1997: 16-year-old outcast Luke Woodham of Pearl, Miss., was sentenced to life in prison for killing his mother, then going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two students died, including the suspect's ex-girlfriend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 30, 1997: Mohammad Ahmad al-Naziri, 48, armed with an assault rifle, opened fire on hundreds of students at two school in Sanaa, Yemen. Six children and two others died. He was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad one week after the incident. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 19, 1997: 16-year-old Evan Ramsey opened fire with a shotgun in a common area at a Bethel, Alaska, high school, killing the principal and a student and wounding two others. Ramsey was sentenced to two 99-year prison terms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, dressed in black and wearing earmuffs to protect himself from the noise, entered an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and sprayed 105 bullets into the gym striking 29 people before killing himself. Sixteen five and 6-year-olds and a teacher died. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 2, 1996: 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis walked into algebra class with a hunting rifle in his trenchcoat and opened fire, killing the teacher and two students. A third student was injured during the shooting at a junior high school in Moses Lake, Wash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 18, 1993: Scott Pennington, 17, walked into Deanna McDavid's English class at East Carter High School in Grayson, Ky., and shot her in the head. He then shot janitor Marvin Hicks. Pennington was sentenced to life without parole -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 1, 1992: Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in a seige at his former high school in Olivehurst, Ca. The attack was said to be in retaliation for a failing grade. Houston was convicted and sentenced to death. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 17, 1989: Patrick Purdy, 26, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, opened fire on a playground at a Stockton, Ca., elementary school. Five children died and 29 children and one teacher were wounded before Purdy killed himself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 26, 1988: James Wilson, 19, opened fire in a Greenwood, S.C. elementary school. He shot seven students and two teachers. Two 8-year-old girls died. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 20, 1988: Laurie Dann, 30, shot six students at a Winnetka, Ill., elementary school, killing one second-grader. She then shot a man in a nearby house before committing suicide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 21, 1985: James Alan Kearbey, 14, armed with a M1-A semiautomatic rifle and a .357- caliber handgun, killed the principal and wounded two teachers and a student at his Goddard (Kansas) Junior high school. He pleaded no contest and served seven years in a state youth facility. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 29, 1979: Brenda Spencer, 16, opened fire with a .22-caliber rifle at an elementary school across the street from her San Diego, Ca., home. She killed two people and wounded seven because she "didn't like Mondays". She is in prison. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: News Reports http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/school_violence/school_shootings.html http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/school_violence06-07.html |
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| Signs That a Child Is Being Bullied Of course, bumps and bruises are telltale signs your child has been physically bullied, but you can watch for other less obvious hints, too:
children form relationships as adolescents and adults and even possibly leading to more serious problems like substance abuse and depression. In addition, bully victims are more likely to experience withdrawn behavior such as anxiety and depression. |
| The key to helping your child deal with bullying is to help him or her regain a sense of dignity and recover damaged self-esteem. To help ward off bullies, give your child these tips:
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| Helping Your Child Stop Bullying In addition to maintaining a positive home atmosphere, there are a number of ways you can encourage your child to give up bullying:
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School Violence
A sign spelling the word 'help' in German was
fixed in a window at the high school in Erfurt in
Germany
fixed in a window at the high school in Erfurt in
Germany
“Work sucks ... school sucks ... life sucks
... what else can I say? ... Life is a video
game you’ve got to die sometime,” he
wrote in his profile for a Web site called
vampirefreaks.com.
... what else can I say? ... Life is a video
game you’ve got to die sometime,” he
wrote in his profile for a Web site called
vampirefreaks.com.
Kimveer Gill of Laval, near Montreal
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine
A young man who experienced the horrors of gun
violence first-hand during the shooting rampage at
Montreal's Dawson College in September is calling on
the Conservative government to maintain the long-gun
registry.
violence first-hand during the shooting rampage at
Montreal's Dawson College in September is calling on
the Conservative government to maintain the long-gun
registry.
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