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https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:36AM (2 children)
And/or to justify taking everyone's guns away. Everyone's agenda is served.
This kind of thing fuels anti-government paranoia. This kind of thing justifies it. This kind of thing defeats reasonable measures for gun control.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday August 29 2018, @10:24AM (1 child)
More likely it is to get increased funding for things like "school resource officers", which means a big chunk of cash to hand out as contracts to cronies to provide security for schools. In Florida for instance, they struggle to get more money for basic school supplies, but they now require every school to have "trained" armed guards.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by ChrisMaple on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:01AM
"They struggle to get more money for basic school supplies"... This is bunk. Just what are school supplies that the school is expected to provide? Chalk, books, paper. Maybe finger paint for art classes, and other such trivia. Everything else isn't considered supplies because stuff like chalkboards and desks and school buildings are expected to last year after year. School supplies are a drop in the bucket compared to teacher salaries. Superintendents are vastly overpaid.