"Forty states require schools to conduct active-shooter drills," Fox says. But they are extremely rare."Īnd yet, adds Fox, the events sometimes result in drastic measures within schools. "They absolutely impact the entire community when they happen.
"We focus a lot on these shootings, which are awful," Fox says. He says the same is true of the context he provides on school shootings. TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killings Database (which won a 2022 EPPY Award for digital journalism) is to deepen perspective and reduce anxiety around such horrific incidents. "The point is, you need to have a clear set of data in order to know what to do about it," Fox says.įox says his goal in managing the Associated Press/U.S. "It's an important point because when people think about school shootings, they respond by wanting more security in the school."įox says that inflating the threat of school shootings leads to policies that he argues can be harmful to students-such as arming teachers with guns and operating active shooter drills at schools that result in stress and anxiety that Fox cites as needless. "Of the 10 fatal shootings, seven occurred in the parking lots and playgrounds and athletic fields outside the school," Fox says of the 2022 data. But James Alan Fox, a Northeastern professor who maintains the longest-running and most extensive data source on mass killings, says that many of those events do not meet the traditional criteria.įox notes that people tend to define school shootings as tragic events that victimize students during classroom hours: At Virginia Tech, where 32 people (including 27 students) were killed in 2007 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 people (including 20 first-grade students) were killed in 2012 at Robb Elementary School, where 21 people (including 19 students who were 10 years or younger) were killed.įox says that the tabulations of Education Week do not meet the traditional criteria because many of the events in 2022 took place at school rather than in school.
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