Violent Schools: Myth or Reality?
	• schools among the safest places for children • homicides in school rare: of 2,000 killings of children/year, 10 in or near schools • 300 youth killed by guns elsewhere for one killed by  gun at school • % carrying gun/weapon to school declined 1996-2001 • most school crime is theft, not violent: 1% report being victim of a “serious” school crime