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After Columbine, West Paducah and Conyers, some schools have turned into citadels, metal detectors at the doors, mesh backpacks required. Not Webster. The doors are open at dawn and left unguarded; 96% of the kids polled this fall by the student newspaper say they feel safe in school. They say...
Once having opened their school to us, principal Pat Voss, superintendent Bill Gussner and their staffs were not only candid but encouraged others to be so too. They were understandably protective of their adolescent charges, but as it turned out, so were we. Atlanta correspondent Tim Roche, a veteran of...
That chilling little drama took place last week, and now, 20 minutes before the opening bell, 10 fully caffeinated members of the Webster Groves staff, led by principal Voss, are discussing what to do about it--beyond the temporary suspension the student received straightaway. The group comprises what the school...
Permian would like to see similar results on its 2,200-student campus. Like Belen High, it's a relatively safe school. But its administrators know that their counterparts in Littleton and Conyers thought the same of their schools. At Permian, Sandia is using both low tech and high tech...
Ironically, all this comes amid statistical signs of an overall decrease in school violence. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed a 30% decline from 1991 to 1997 in the number of students carrying weapons to school and a 14% decline in student fights...