Posted on 09/08/2013 11:57:31 AM PDT by raybbr
Efforts to keep Connecticut schools safe have escalated since a lone gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last year and shot to death 20 first-graders and six adults. But not all threats to school safety come from outside the building.
State records show that at least 1,246 weapons – or common items used as weapons -- surfaced at Connecticut schools in the 2011-2012 school year, the most recent data available. The weapons included at least 16 handguns and at least two rifles or shotguns.
"It's almost impossible to absolutely ensure that a gun is never going to come into a school building by the hands of a student, a teacher or a visitor," said school safety expert Edward F. Dragan, founder of Education Management Consulting, LLC in Lambertville, N.J.
Of the state's approximately 1,100 public k-12 schools, 537 reported at least one incident where a "weapon" was involved. The state collects the data from local school systems. Items are defined as weapons by their use and some common items found in schools, such as pens and pencils, are included. Sign Up For Traffic Text Alerts The state only lists schools where one or more incidents involving at least one weapon occurred, so the number of weapons is likely to be higher than 1,246. In the majority of cases, the most-dangerous weapons were seized either without incident or without serious injury.
Handguns were reported at two elementary schools: Lebanon Elementary School, where pre-kindergartners through fourth-graders attend, and Waltersville School in Bridgeport, a pre-kindergartners through eighth-grade school.
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Sicssors can be harmful too.
Over 50 years later, I still have remnants of pencil lead in the back of my hand and in my thigh, where a girl on the school bus stabbed me.
She dropped her pencil, and like a gentleman should, I started to pick it up to hand back, but she stomped on it, breaking it. She then grabbed the pointy end, and got me twice in quick succession.
Yes; she was a “mainstreamed” mild retard...and her daddy was on the school board.
If you have to ask, you aren’t cleared to know. If I told you, I would be forced to demonstrate the method upon you, before I was executed by the rest of the members of the organization.
Sorry to hear you couldn't get the lead out. In the old days, we did what we could to survive and made the best of it. None of this PC-crap zero-tolerance stuff. I got jumped numerous times, had my tooth broken when a punk bashed my head into a drinking-faucet in the school hallway, got gum mashed into my hair and had a teacher cut my hair to get it out. The only way to deal with it was to learn to fight back. I got bloodied, got stitches in my head, got bruised, but managed to come out on top other times. Being young was hard trying to survive, so I feel bad for kids. Now I'm old and not afraid to die, and will inflict major damage if necessary. Wish I knew then what I know now.
Yep. Sometimes we handed some out; other times, got it handed to us, but we learned to cope.
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