I found a great article this morning written on PoliceOne.com that highlights the key parts of a talk that David Grossman gave about how schools are inadequately prepared to deal with school violence. Obviously, with last week’s tragedy in Newtown, CT, there are a lot of people looking at their own school’s safety situation and this is really an article written for them.
Grossman talks about all of the steps schools have taken to prevent fires in schools (and rightly so) which has ensured that not a single student has died in a school fire in the last 50 years. School violence on the other hand claims continues to claim the lives of children. Why? Grossman talks about denial and the perceptions of security vs. fire safety.
The article is definitely worth the read, you can find it here: http://bit.ly/12p0H77