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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, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:26PM
This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened. It's not even the first time it's happened this year. In March there was a widely distributed/syndicated/linked article from claimed "1 school shooting per week in 2018". A trivial amount of research, literally 5 minutes googling the specific incidents, revealed the vast majority were not what a reasonable person considers a school shooting. E.g. _not at schools_, accidental discharges by police officers, shootings near university dorms, etc.