... person pulled the alarm. The suspects were armed with handguns and rifles, some of which appeared to be semi-automatics. Two rifles and other weapons were seized by police officials. Police said they arrived within four minutes of being notified of the shootings, which began shortly after noon. They ... a school. The shootings also exposed one of their growing fears: that at an increasingly young age, students seem to have easy access to deadly weapons and no qualms about using them. Robert T.M. Phillips, a psychiatrist who serves as medical director of Forensic Consultation Associates...

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... of knives. Despite Shanon's honest mistake, and the confirmation from her mother that the lunch boxes were accidentally switched, the school expelled Shanon citing the state's zero-tolerance policy regarding weapons in school. Though Shanon had no intention of using the paring knife as a weapon and informed her teacher immediately of the mistake, the policy did not allow for school administrators ... have fallen victim to the misuse of zero tolerance policies and the disproportionate enforcement of harsh penalties. In Palm Beach, Florida school police charged a student with "throwing a ...

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... 59,822 62,039 63,602 65,451 +14% Assault/Battery* 319 214 53 47 46 82 Assault w/Deadly Weapon* 6 3 16 11 8 24 Sex Offenses 57 15 5 4 2 4 -93% Robbery/Extortion 34 12 13 5 3 5 -85% Chemical Substances 71 29 24 20 27 37 -48% Weapons or Look A like 145 78 28 24 12 36 -75% Vandalism** 1,409 1,155 127 93 98 106 Dangerous ... has been revised because of different interpretations of what constitutes assault. Verbal threats without physical contact were sometimes reported as assaults. There is also a new, expanded definition of assault with a deadly weapon. Reported now is any item that is actu...

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Quality education is critical to the future of America's children. However, we cannot educate our children in schools where weapons, gang violence, and drugs, threaten their safety. Many local school districts have made uniforms an important part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. Students resort to ... public schools, administrators began to consider uniforms as a solution to the problem. In Baltimore, Maryland, school administrators found a 44% drop in assault and battery charges, a 50% reduction in assault with a deadly weapon, a 41% cut in occurrences of fight...

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Quality education is critical to the future of America's children. However, we cannot educate our children in schools where weapons, gang violence, and drugs, threaten their safety. Many local school districts have made uniforms an important part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. Students resort to ... public schools, administrators began to consider uniforms as a solution to the problem. In Baltimore, Maryland, school administrators found a 44% drop in assault and battery charges, a 50% reduction in assault with a deadly weapon, a 41% cut in occurrences of fight...

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