Word: fears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Place Safe?" reported on the rush by schools to install security measures [NATION, Aug. 23]. Now we have constant high-tech surveillance, security fences, uniforms... So what are we teaching our children? How to live in a police state. Undoubtedly these school-security measures are instituted out of fear. Concerns for our children's safety are well founded. In being driven by fears while forgetting to safeguard civil liberties, however, we may reach a time when the term "the land of the free and the home of the brave" no longer applies. TONY KALENAK Odessa, Texas...
...danger. There's no question that schoolchildren get hurt and killed, but more than 15 million students go to high school every day and are not injured. Not everyone is in danger of being shot or killed. We do not all have to walk in fear and carry guns. CRAIG LITTLEFIELD Tucson, Ariz...
...police would ever catch the man who took her from her kitchen and raped her in the woods outside her home in 1989. She didn't get a good look at him during the assault, and the investigators didn't have any solid leads. For years Smith lived in fear that he would return and attack her or her daughters. But one day, her husband, a police officer, came home with good news: the state DNA lab had caught her rapist. Norman Jimmerson, in fact, was already in jail, convicted of kidnapping and robbing two other women around the same...
SAFETY It takes a whole school to keep violence in check. How teachers, police and kids can create a place where students are free from fear--and free to learn...
...plans are in place in their school, but responding to crises, as well as installing sophisticated security devices, is only part of a good school-safety program. Here are other things you as a parent should look for to assure that your child is as safe and free from fear as possible...