Virginia Public School Security – the Disturbing Data
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18 responses to “Virginia Public School Security – the Disturbing Data”
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Apparently you missed the latest a fight at TC Williams in Alexandria where students had a massive brawl and one was stabbed to death.
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I saw the story.
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Captain I saw so much nonsense that was never reported, swept under the rug, and business continued as usual. The numbers you report are likely much lower than the reality of modern education security issues.
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Because that was off school grounds, it might not show up in the data for this year.
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Correct. It won’t.
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It should! That violence occurred between the 2 campuses of ACHS and Executive Principal Balas should be held accountable.
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We had a pretty bad fight here at a middle school in Fauquier a few weeks ago. Problem child w/ known issues. The school principal was transferred to another school to “lead”. What a crock. This is the result of yet another monopoly.
The police, which is apparently now just the billy club of the state are NOT to be trusted. They let cities burn during BLM riots. They enforced unconstitutional lockdowns. And they have no obligation to intervene in a school shooting it seems. The thin blue line is a farce. Conservatives are morons to believe otherwise.
The solution is simple. GTFO public schools if you can. Send a damn message that the state doesn’t own your children.
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Waiting for Conservatives to castigate you for daring to say cops are not to be trusted… we all know it won’t happen… hypocrites every one of you…
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You said that the police cannot be trusted. What do you mean?
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You cannot trust the police to protect you during a crime. As evidenced during blm riots, uvalde shooting, etc. They’ll do what the state tells them, however.
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The SRO failed at Parkland and Uvalde. That’s what I mean.
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This data summary is useful. Thanks for compiling it.
To put it into perspective, however, much more detail is needed. For example, how serious were the assaults and fights? One student pushing another could be catagorized as an assault. My daughter told me, sort of matter of factedly, that there was a fight in her high school almost every day over thirty years ago. She said that mostly it was a matter of girls fighting over a boy.
The weapons incidents are most worrisome to me. Again, however, more detail is needed. What sort of weapons? When I was a kid in elementary school, it was not unusual for boys to bring pocketknives to school. I am sure that is not allowed now, a pocketknife is much less dangerous than a semiautomatic handgun. How many of these weapons charges were a result of weapons being detected upon the student entering school/
Security inside the school is, of course, important. But, after Columbine, the three mass school shootings were committed by outsiders with semiautomatic weapons either walking or shooting their way into the school.
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I absolutely agree with your quest for detail. It is the job of the VDOE to understand those details statewide and the school boards to get the details in their divisions. I wish I had them, including how many of these resulted in arrests, criminal charges and convictions.
The convictions are the key to the effectiveness of red flag laws and background checks. That in turn returns to the enforcement philosophy of the prosecutor, which has been a lively subject here.
I don’t think the progressive prosecutors wish to talk about the link between their refusals to prosecute and the negative effects of that failure on the red flag and background check programs they support.
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31,000 fights actually seems pretty low given a total population of 1.3 million.
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31,000 fights reported to the state. That distinction is important.
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Indeed. The bureaucratic incentives are to report fewer incidents and impose fewer sanctions in order to shut down the schools-to-prison pipeline.
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I cannot emphasize enough the differences among:
– incidents;
– incidents reported to VDOE;
– incidents reported to law enforcement;
– arrests;
– arrests that resulted in prosecution or referral to mental health professionals; and
– convictions or mental health records that block gun purchases.
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One more observation: If you thought the 2018-19 data were bad, just wait for the 2021-22 data… assuming the reporting of incidents has been repressed.
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