"Pure chaos" is how students at Garfield High School in Seattle described the shooting scene they encountered when they returned to campus from lunch in June. 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine died ...

the "hardening" of American schools. Tom American schools are soft, you say? I know what you mean. I taught college for 15 years, so I've dealt with my share of still-teenagers fresh out of high ...

While I recognize that these knee-jerk reactions to violence are pushes for more security, I am stunned that the concept of “hardening” schools is even a casual talking point. This to me seems like a ...

Fifty years ago, just 1% of the nation's public schools had police officers on campus. That number has jumped to more than 40% now. The 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado prompted ...

One student at Arlington ISD’s Bowie High School was killed ... these shootings should also drive home the point that simply “hardening” campuses can’t fix a culture of violence fueled ...

Read More: Guns Became the Leading Cause of Death for American Children and Teens in 2020 When I arrived at my Texas high school the ... that the concept of hardening schools is even a casual ...

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. But sales were ...

Karen Dolan The bill also puts $300 million toward “school safety,” a vague term that advocates understand to mean “hardening” the nation’s schools. Hardening measures can include ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a sweeping bill hardening schools against would-be attackers into law—the seventh anti-school shooter legislation passed ...

State leaders promised to make them more secure after mass shootings at Santa Fe High School and then again after Robb Elementary. They largely emphasized “hardening” schools. That meant ...

The report is the culmination over nearly a year’s worth of work after the shooting at Oxford High School which ... evenly between mental health and school hardening. “I’m really excited ...

In explaining his position on school hardening to me, he used the analogy of someone attempting to prevent a heart attack. “Instead of eating healthy and exercising,” he said, “they’re ...