Posted on 12/11/2018 5:50:59 PM PST by Ennis85
This year, 113 people have been killed or injured in school shootings in the United States.
That's the sobering finding of a project to count the annual toll of gun attacks in schools.
At the beginning of 2018, Education Week, a journal covering education in the US, began to track school shootings - and has since recorded 23 incidents where there were deaths or injuries.
With many parts of the US having about 180 school days per year, it means, on average, a shooting once every eight school days.
Another database recording school shootings says 2018 has had the highest number of incidents ever recorded, in figures going back to 1970.
That database, from the US Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), uses a different way of identifying gun incidents in school, and says this year there have been 94.
The idea behind the year-long Education Week project was to mark each shooting - so that attacks should never come to seem "normal" and that every victim should be remembered.
But it was also an attempt to fill in the gaps in knowledge, because while there was intense media coverage of multiple-casualty shootings, there was much less clarity about the attacks happening across the country each month.
Lesli Maxwell, assistant managing editor of Education Week, said this year has "definitely been an outlier" with two large-scale school shootings, which have contributed to such a high annual loss of life.
Seventeen people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
At Santa Fe High School near Houston, Texas, there were 10 killed, with both gun attacks carried out by teenage boys.
"This year also stands out because of all the activism that followed Parkland, with students leading the charge," says Ms
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Have we really only seen Camera Hogg’s mug on tv and in print for less than a year?
Definitions, please! This article is replete with ambiguous and vague terms.
Actually, it’d be the worst year for gun free zones.
I imagine the definition of a school shooting was stretched to the very limits of material science.
Next we need the Nuns With Guns photo!
Worst year for schools in neighborhoods of the left.
“...Never had any accidents or other problems”.
Because no one was on SSRI psych drugs.
www.drugawareness.org
Right on.
BBC, huh?
Now do 2018 stabbings in the U.K.
180 days of school/year in the US?
That would be about 6 months of no school.
When I attended school, we got off about a week for Christmas and there were no Fall or Spring breaks. Then, we were out of school June, July and August. Roughly ~260 days of school each year.
Is it any wonder that over the past couple of decades the school kids have been dumbed down?
OFFS! Opioids deaths-—————meh.
Yes, it was. They often include gang fights that occurred within the general area of a school, like within a mile or so. It’s totally dishonest.
Millions of students had their brains destroyed by government School communist indoctrination
“180 days of school/year in the US?
That would be about 6 months of no school.”
No it wouldn’t,180 school days days is equivalent to 36 weeks of school.
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