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School Violence:. Is it increasing?. The earliest recorded…Bath, MI. May 18, 1927 , Andrew Kehoe set off 300 lbs of TNT in the basement of the school in which he worked. 500 lbs failed to ignite. 44 deaths; 30 of which were children.
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School Violence: Is it increasing?
The earliest recorded…Bath, MI • May 18, 1927, Andrew Kehoe set off 300 lbs of TNT in the basement of the school in which he worked. 500 lbs failed to ignite. • 44 deaths; 30 of which were children. • Kehoe also killed his wife and torched his farm and horses; the horses were found with their feet hobbled to the floor with bailing wire. • Kehoe was also killed by a separate blast.
A Little More History… • Jan. 29, 1979: Brenda Spencer, 16, killed two people and wounded seven because she "didn't like Mondays." She is currently in prison. • Jan. 17, 1989: Patrick Purdy, 26, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, opened fire on a playground at a Stockton, Ca., elementary school. Five children died and 29 children and one teacher were wounded before Purdy killed himself. • Mar. 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton (below), 43, dressed in black and wearing earmuffs to protect himself from the noise, entered an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and shot 29 people before killing himself. Sixteen children and a teacher died.
Many others… • Mar. 24, 1998: Four girls and a teacher were shot to death and 10 others wounded during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark. Two boys, Andrew Golden (left), 11, and Mitchell Johnson (right), 13, were accused of setting off the alarm and then opening fire from a nearby woods. • Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts, 32, took 10 girls hostage in an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them before killing himself. • Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts, 32, took 10 girls hostage in an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them before killing himself.
Columbine • Apr. 20, 1999: Columbine High School students Dylan Klebold (left), 17, and Eric Harris (right), 18, went on a shooting rampage, killing 12 of their classmates and one teacher, a Hoosier native, in Littleton, Colo. Klebold and Harris then kill themselves. The massacre was the bloodiest school shooting in U.S. history.
Serious Violent Crime Rate in U.S. Schools Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
The probability that any school age child will die this year from… • Any cause: 1 in 3,000 • A traffic accident: 1 in 8,000 • Homicide, away from school: 1 in 21,000 • Suicide, away from school: 1 in 28,000 • Cancers: 1 in 33,000 • Accidental drowning: 1 in 73,000 • Heart disease: 1 in 79,000 • A firearm accident: 1 in 200,000 • Pneumonia or influenza: 1 in 250,000 • Bronchitis, Emphysema, or Asthma: 1 in 260,000 • Accidental fall: 1 in 390,000 • HIV: 1 in 420,000 • An act of nature, including lightning: 1 in780,000 • Any adverse effect of medical care: 1 in 1,300,000 • Homicide at school: 1 in 1,700,000
1998 School Related Crimes Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2000, October 2000.
The effects on the students… Percentage of Students Who Feel Afraid at School or on the Way to School, By Ethnicity
Incidents of crime 03-04 Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics