'More work to be done': Teams tasked with stopping school shootings riddled with problems
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'More work to be done': Teams tasked with stopping school shootings riddled with problems

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Max Schachter wanted to be close to his son Alex on his birthday, July 9, so he watched old videos of him. Yet, Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist who in 2001 developed one of the first sets of guidelines for school threat assessment teams, said there have been problems. Stephanie Crawford-Goetz, a school psychologist and the director of mental health for student support services in the Douglas County School District in Colorado, where a shooting occurred at a charter school in 2019, said her district’s threat assessment process emphasizes a proactive, rehabilitative approach to managing potential threats, as the NTAC suggests. Some states, such as Florida, mandate that threat assessment teams determine whether a student’s disability played a role in their behavior and recommend they include special education teachers and other professionals in their evaluation. In Texas, which has mandated threat assessment teams, a third of students subjected to threat assessments in the Dallas Independent School District receive special education services.

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First came the warning signs. Then a teen opened fire on a Nashville school.
1 month, 2 weeks ago

First came the warning signs. Then a teen opened fire on a Nashville school.

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ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. School officials responded by suspending Henderson for two days, according to WSMV-TV, which obtained a disciplinary record that refers to the weapon as a “box cutter.” Two months after that, in December 2024, a user on X flagged one of Henderson’s accounts and tagged the FBI, encouraging the agency to look into his …

Red flags before school shootings: What students and teachers can look for to help prevent violence
3 months ago

Red flags before school shootings: What students and teachers can look for to help prevent violence

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CNN — To help avert potential school violence, students and staff need to know certain warning signs – and feel comfortable reporting them. But “the general public, they really don’t know what to look for,” said former FBI special agent and profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole, who has studied school shootings for more than 20 years. Make sure students can report …

Safety policy not enforced before Michigan school shooting
2 years, 3 months ago

Safety policy not enforced before Michigan school shooting

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OXFORD, Mich. — Policies and procedures that could have prevented a mass shooting that left four students dead at a Michigan high school last year were approved earlier but never implemented, two former school board officials said Monday. Tom Donnelly and Korey Bailey, who recently resigned as Oxford Community Schools’ board president and treasurer, told reporters that a threat assessment …

Security protocols leave threat responses up to schools
3 years, 3 months ago

Security protocols leave threat responses up to schools

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School systems nationwide rely on high-level expertise from the U.S. Secret Service and others as they work to stay vigilant for signs of potential student violence, training staff, surveilling social media and urging others to tip them off. “There is no such thing as the perfect school safety and crisis response protocol,” said Stephen Brock, a lead author on the …

Parkland dad: The call for officers to be removed from schools is a mistake (Opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

Parkland dad: The call for officers to be removed from schools is a mistake (Opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Ryan Petty is a board member of Stand with Parkland, a national organization committed to advocating for practical public safety reforms focused on the safety of children and staff at school, improved mental health support and responsible firearms ownership. Stand with Parkland – The National Association of Families for Safe Schools, founded by families of the students and …

Putting together the puzzle: School teams assess threats
5 years, 7 months ago

Putting together the puzzle: School teams assess threats

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There were so many questions after 17-year-old Ely Serna brought a shotgun to his Ohio school and opened fire in 2017, wounding two. Schools like McGill’s have been setting up teams to assess threats posed by students who display signs of violence, like another Ohio student, Connor Betts, who compiled a “hit list” years ago in high school and went …

Researcher: Threat assessments crucial to prevent school shootings
6 years, 10 months ago

Researcher: Threat assessments crucial to prevent school shootings

Salon  

Editor’s note: This article was adapted from testimony the author gave on March 20, 2018 at a school safety forum convened on Capitol Hill by U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott and House Democrats. One of the best ways to make schools safer is to use threat assessments — a tool developed by law enforcement to protect public figures. In my opinion …

Here's How To Prevent The Next School Shooting, Experts Say
7 years ago

Here's How To Prevent The Next School Shooting, Experts Say

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Here's How To Prevent The Next School Shooting, Experts Say Enlarge this image LA Johnson/NPR LA Johnson/NPR After Parkland, there have been many calls to make schools a "harder target" — for example, by arming teachers. "If we're really talking about prevention, my perspective is that we should go for the public health approach," says Ron Avi Astor at the …

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