Word: littleton
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SAFER SCHOOLS AND STREETS Fifty-two percent of American teenagers say a mass killing like the one at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., could happen at their school, but only 9% say the biggest problem facing them is violence, down from 22% in 1994, according to a New York Times/CBS News study released last week. Thirty-one percent say the main concern facing teenagers is drugs, and 21% say it is peer pressure. The study indicates that perceptions of teen violence are finally conforming to the drop in such crimes in recent years...
...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 the kids get along pretty well, races mix, jocks and geeks hang out together. And yet they will say, if you ask, "Littleton could happen here." Last spring, after Columbine, someone scrawled a bomb threat on the wall of a boys' bathroom. The marginal kids know they are being watched, very, very closely...
...rule, high schools don't make national news unless something terrible has happened, as was unfortunately the case last spring at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. For this week's 35-page special report, however, TIME chose Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., in part because it has not been benighted by violence...
...school's reaction angers Janet. "I think they're trying to take too much control," she says. "I think they're going to look for anything they can, and if they can get him out of school, they'll be relieved. If the situation at Littleton never happened, things would be a lot different now." Matt complains that the school targets students who stand out. "They don't talk to the preppy kids. They flag the kids that are Goth and wear black...
This deeply disturbed Osborn and she writes that we have been, "reduced to debating the benefits of bestowing the title of martyr upon Littleton victim Cassie Bernall." She calls this, "emblematic of the problems with the current debate surrounding religion in public schools...