145 School Shootings Since Newtown

(from Education Week) Five years after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, K-12 schools continue to wrestle with questions about their vulnerability to gun violence and their ability to prevent similar tragedies from happening. There have been at least 145 other incidents involving a gun discharge in a K-12 school since the Newtown shootings. While little progress has been made toward tougher gun laws, many school systems and individual schools have taken steps to mitigate the risk of violence. These include:

• Many states have launched phone and internet safety tiplines that have been credited with averting shootings.
• Programs to encourage prevention in schools include Say Something, which teaches students how to recognize signs that a peer may be likely to commit violence.
• Intervention efforts involve coordinating communitiy-based mental health services, risk-assessment teams and active instruction in "healthy social development."
• Schools are holding more safety drills, some of them teaching tactics such as how to escape out of windows.

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