PART 1: Borum, Randy, et al. “What Can Be Done About School Shootings? A Review of the Evidence.” Educational Researcher, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27764551. Accessed 27 Nov. 2023.

PART 2:

-public concern

-school shootings

-preventing

-safe

-efforts

-laws

-violent behavior

-tolerance

PART 3: “What Can Be Done About School Shootings?” emphasized the concern and worry about preventing school shootings and understanding why this happens. Randy conducted research on the existing safety measures schools take to prevent school shootings, to what should be implemented in the future. Examples like zero tolerance which detect and regulate rules on kids to prevent a possible future shooting and student profiling. There is also a set of data graphs from the 1990s-2005 which compare homicide and suicide rates in schools vs outside of school. The article concludes with the concept of threat assesment and the cruciality of a supportive school environment.

Part 4 : The article introduced the current issue in todays world. School shooting have been appearing more often on the news. I remember back in elementary school when school shooting started happening and they had to teach children the lockdown drills for safety measures. Even though this is good measure the reasoning behind it is really unfortunate. Children should not have to learn drills to prevent getting killed from a sick individual. I am appealed reading this article because it reminded me of what I had learned as a student in school. It also can relate to almost every kid in the US. In addition, there was tons of sources and authors that were refernced for this article making it a reliable source.

PART 5:

“the act was passed when the rate of violent behavior in schools was near its peak of 13 incidents per 1,000 students, totaling 322,400 incidents of serious violent crimes (Dinkes, Cataldi, & Lin-Kelly, 2007).”

“Today, schools across the country are combining basic security measures, such as searching lockers (53%), placing school staff in hallways (90%), locking entrances and/or exit doors during the school day (54%), and requiring visitors to sign in (93%)”

“Threat assessment is intended to help schools avoid the pitfalls of both overreacting and underreacting to student misbehavior, which can have important implications for school discipline practice and the prevention of violence. “

“The key challenge is how best to achieve a balanced and reasonable set of policies that maintain appropriate vigilance and disciplinary structure and minimize risk of serious harm, yet facilitate a fair and interpersonally supportive climate in the school.”