Sentences with phrase «school shootings have»

The schools who have dealt with school shootings have, after the tragedy, adopted a focus on creating a caring school environment and involving parents in that process.
Since the Columbine massacre, other U.S. school shootings have followed, including Virginia Tech in 2007 and Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012.
Isn't it ironic that two of the bravest heroes in these tragic school shootings have been former offensive linemen — a position based on the selfless safeguarding of others?
Mass school shootings have continued to make headlines throughout recent years, but some believe a solution can be found in the pages of the past.
These recent school shootings have deeply affected Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) as we grapple with the loss of life in one our most sacred institutions.
School shootings have all of these elements.
Only time will tell whether school shootings have already or will become «the new normal.»
«The reality and prospect of school shootings have been devastating for our schools and country as a whole,» said Prichard Committee Executive Director Brigitte Blom Ramsey.
Frequent school shootings have been a major concern in American society for decades, but the causes have defied understanding.
However, school shootings have been steadily increasing since 1979.
What evidence is there that school shootings have any causal link to the curriculum?
Past school shootings have usually had transient effects on public opinion, if any.
The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.
A conservative commentator who sent a tweet saying he would use «a hot poker» to sexually assault an outspoken 17 - year - old survivor of the Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station and been taken off the radio after several advertisers withdrew from his shows.
The mother of one of the students killed in the Parkland school shooting has confirmed that she will be running for a seat on the Broward County School Board.
Since 26 people were killed in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, a nonprofit that tracks school shootings has recorded five a month, on average.
A survivor of the Parkland school shooting has shared a senior prom night to remember with a Nebraska girl.
If Cruz's role is confirmed, the Parkland school shooting would be the second school shooting by a white supremacist in the past two months.
Anxiety over school shootings has become a common fear in America.
NEW YORK — A conservative commentator who tweeted that he would use «a hot poker» to sexually assault a 17 - year - old survivor of a Florida high school shooting has resigned from...
The Aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has flipped Florida's Legislature, changing its focus to debates on firearms and school safety.
Just days after the massacre that left 17 of their classmates and teachers dead, student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have become prominent gun control activists.
NEW YORK — A conservative commentator who tweeted that he would use «a hot poker» to sexually assault a 17 - year - old survivor of a Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station.
But the recent Florida school shooting has raised a more specific set of claims that deserve to be addressed.
The Aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has Florida's lawmakers changing their focus to debates on firearms and school safety.
Students who survived the Florida school shooting have been extremely critical of the President.
Outrage over school shootings has been dominating headlines, not just because the victims are children but also because the attacks occur so randomly and in places — Parkland, Fla., Newtown, Conn. — where it once seemed such a thing could never happen.
Since 26 people were killed in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, a nonprofit that tracks school shootings has recorded five a month, on average.
A string of horrific school shootings has catapulted the issues of school violence and safety into the national spotlight, leaving parents, teachers, and policymakers wondering why the attacks had happened and what could be done to better protect the nation's schoolchildren.
A letter from College Board President David Coleman about the Parkland school shootings has sparked anger and an apology.
While Parkland's student activists have received much attention, family members of victims of a school shooting their have successfully pushed for changes at both the state and federal levels.
Just as it seemed that public reaction to school shootings had become predictable, and lawmakers» votes on gun control would stay within the status quo, students» responses to the latest tragedy in Parkland, Fla., have been anything but.
Reading about the many recent school shootings has been heartbreaking.
Over a century later and just a few minutes drive away, our nation's deadliest school shooting would occur in Sandy Hook in an incident where most of the fatalities occurred in two unlocked classrooms.
A 15 - year - old boy who was wounded in the Parkland school shooting has filed notice that he will sue authorities to seek money to cover the cost of his recovery.
The family of a girl who was killed in the Parkland school shooting has set up a fund to support research for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Veronica Carbonell, 17 and a senior at Cypress Bay High, said the student activism since the Feb. 14 school shooting has been an inspiration that has helped her realize the power of the vote.

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Since Parkland, I have come to the terrifying realization that a shooting can just as easily happen at my school.
The NRA has come under fire in the aftermath of a horrific Florida school shooting in which 17 students lost their lives.
Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.
In 2018 alone, there have been 14 school shootings, an average of 1.5 a week.
It's a question parents, teachers and students have been urgently asking since the latest school shooting tragedy in Parkland Florida that left 17 dead.
I had always thought our school lockdown drills were pointless; I mean, a shooting could never happen in New York, right?
In the aftermath of several school shootings, many citizens and politicians have suggested that we begin hardening schools.
Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.
In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.
School shooting survivors started selling #MSDstrong shirts as a way to unify after the trauma and now they've already made more than $ 180,000, USA Today reports.»
On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.
«Can anyone here guess how many shootings there have been in the schools since then in Australia?»
Connecticut authorities have published documents that describe FBI interviews conducted after the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school.
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