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Perpetrators of school shootings tend to be male and have access to a loaded firearm. They are more likely than their peers to suffer from a mental illness (anxiety, depression, psychopathy), to have had a history of violence or delinquency, to have experienced a traumatic event in their childhood, [10] and to report having been bullied by their peers. [11]
At a recent School Committee meeting, BHS Interim Principal Jose Duarte estimated that between 100 and 200 students out of Brockton High's roughly 3,600 student population are causing chaos.
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
Pennington, after being shot, gained control of the gun and shot Johnson in the back. [5] Charges were later reduced to Aggravated Battery. To prevent violence, Carter G. Woodson Middle School had students pass through metal detectors at the time.
I just heard shotting [sic],” 8-year-old Nora Gottschalk said. “And then there was a teacher and she was screaming like, ‘Ahh, my leg! Help! Help!’”
This is a list of mass/spree killers who attacked schools. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period. [72] [73] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [74] [75] [76]
Dilapidated housing in the neighbourhood of the school has been found to be associated with school violence. [33] Teacher assault was more likely to occur in schools located in high-crime neighbourhoods. [34] Exposure to deviant peers is a risk factor for high levels of aggressivity.
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