Posted on 08/28/2018 1:46:03 PM PDT by 11th_VA
... The Civil Rights Data Collection for 2018 required every public school — more than 96,000 — to answer questions on a wide range of issues.
It asked what sounded like a simple question:
In the 2015-2016 school year, “Has there been at least one incident at your school that involved a shooting (regardless of whether anyone was hurt)?”
The answer — “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools)” — was published this spring.
The government’s definition included any discharge of a weapon at school-sponsored events or on school buses. Even so, that would be a rate of shootings, and a level of violence, much higher than anyone else had ever found.
That number of shootings is much higher than even gun control groups like Everytown claim to be the case, so NPR decided to contact every school listed in the report to verify it’s accuracy. What it found was a complete bungle.
That number of shootings is much higher than even gun control groups like Everytown claim to be the case, so NPR decided to contact every school listed in the report to verify it’s accuracy. What it found was a complete bungle.
NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn’t confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn’t meet the government’s parameters for a shooting...
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
The only surprise is the NPR reported this . . .
NPR??????? Is the world coming to an end???? Save the wimmen and chilrens.
How many schools can’t fill out forms?
What’s the point of tests if they don’t even read in school?
Somebody at NPR is about to lose his or her job.
A favorite trick of the leftist gun controllers such as Bloomberg is to associate shootings with schools even if the shootings took place at the park a mile in any direction from the school. These organizations will call two shooting victims at a park, a bar within a mile of a school, or perhaps at a gaming store a mass shooting, and associate it any means they can with the school. All for the purpose of creating anxiety in our society to promote their agenda.
The article source is listed as NPR, google. Both known leftist organizations. I’d have a difficult time being concerned about the content.
“Their best guess, she says, is that there was some kind of mistake in coding, where an incident involving something like a pair of scissors (California Education Code 48915[c][2]), for example, got inflated into one involving a firearm (48915[c][1]).”
The old 48915[c][2]/48915[c][1] scissors/gun switcheroo. Yup, happens all the time.
Freegards
Coding error by mistake or on purpose I don’t trust anti’s not to lie.
Dang it. What’s a devout Leftist to do these days?
Nothing’s going right.
Children lie to them.
Statistics fail them.
Soros’ billions don’t buy what they used to.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
“So with just two simple mistakes, you’ve created 63 school shootings that never happened. “
Hey! Not bad! Got any pointers for us future propagandists of America?/s
[The only surprise is that NPR reported this . . .]
No kidding. How long have I been asleep?
Diversity.
Hmmmm...interesting to say the least.
I wonder if any of those school shooting were something as absurd as: The senior class took the pep rally a little too far by shooting the effigy of our rivals mascot with a potato cannon.
Not mistakes.
Those don’t even remotely look like the same person, if that’s what the implication is.
Nah! CNN can use smore liars!
I’ll always ask my wife about some actress. “Oh - is that Betty Anderson?”
“Um - no. Looks nothing like her. Well, they do both have blonde hair I guess.”
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