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...applies to the inner cities and the suburbs, to New York and to Oregon. At the same time, incarcerations are up and laws and school policies punishing youthful offenders have grown harsher. The reason, the report concludes, is that isolated but well-publicized events such as the Columbine and Jonesboro shootings have the public thinking that our schools are battlegrounds...
...that will make it easier to trace calls coming in to Webster High. Earlier in the day, Voss asked the school's maintenance chief, Frank Schaffer, to post two employees on the roof whenever the school has a crisis evacuation or drill. "I'm worried about that situation in Jonesboro, where the kids with guns shot the other kids as they were leaving the building for a fire drill," she said. "It would be good to have someone on the roof to make sure it's safe to leave...
...that what's needed is not less coverage but more information about how these cases turn out. "We do a good job of showing the perpetrators at the time," says Pamela Riley, executive director of the Center for Prevention of School Violence in Raleigh, N.C. "But where are the Jonesboro shooters now? They're in detention, and their lives are ruined." That's the part of the story few copycats have in mind while daydreaming of their moment in the spotlight...
...with any religious denomination, Talent House calls itself a Christian school, where the day opens with the Lord's Prayer, and grace is spoken before each meal--character-building tools unavailable, of course, to the nation's public schools. But we live now in the bloody backwash of Littleton, Jonesboro and several other schoolhouse horror stories, not to mention the more quotidian indicators of failing character, from widespread cheating to gang activity. Across the country, schools both public and private are turning to programs of character education in hopes of inoculating kids with the values of civility and integrity, against...
...middleman in the gun sale; and Robyn Anderson, Klebold's prom date, who police say bought three guns used in the massacre. But probably none of them have enough money to justify the time and effort of a suit. The victims might turn to bigger culprits. Victims of the Jonesboro, Ark., school killings have sued gunmakers, and victims of the Paducah, Ky., shooting are suing Time Warner and PolyGram, the maker of The Basketball Diaries, a movie in which a student imagines shooting his classmates...