Here are some other statistics from a range of sources. Hear are some from the National center for education statistics 57% of public elementary and secondary school principles reported that one or more incidents of crime occurred in their schools during the 96-97 school year, also 10% of all public schools experienced one or more serious violent crimes which could be murder, rape, or other types of sexual battery, suicide, physical attack or a fight which involved a weapon. Physical fights without a weapon led the list on reported crimes during the 96-97 school year with a total 190,000 incidents. 56% of the students expelled for bring firearms to school in 96-97 were in high school 34% were in junior high and 9% were in elementary, between 89 and 95 students reporting street gang presence nearly doubled increasing from 15% to 28%. According to the center on addiction and substantive abuse 765 of high school students and 46% of middle school students said that drugs are kept, used or sold on school property. They also reported that 28% of high school and 19% of middle school teachers say students who appear drunk or high show up in class monthly or more frequently. Even elementary school teachers say that in a survey that talk back or disobey teachers most of the time or fairly often the number has increased from 42% in 1984 to 54%in 1997. And this makes it even harder for the kids that want to learn to learn. Fear of school-related violence kept 5% of high school students home at least once in the month most recent youth at risk behavior survey. Even last month in New Hampshire threats of violence on a bathroom wall closed a middle school for 5 days, which is the longest shutdown because of a threat according to the state departm

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