Originally Posted by icky

Is there a general increase in incidents like this where you live?

People where I live talk incessantly about the increase in violence and they cite the most recent incidents as proof, but many of the most serious acts of school-age violence that I can recall happened in the 70's and 80's. Likewise for kidnappings and such. I am quite certain that nothing has changed but the hype.

(sorry, I should have pulled this into the sandbox to discuss)

Of course not where I live. Why would something happening in my home town affect the politics and funding of the national school system? But I know your style icky, I had that coming to me.

Good point about the 1970s. Things were definitely worse than today.

However, the acute instances of violence (deaths) may have gone up (and be more shocking [subjective word]). Perhaps the media hype of the past ten years has gotten to me. Plus I am young, and I do not study such things. But, from what I do know, the 70s were worse.

I would actually say, that the overall instances have constantly gone done in the last 35 years.
I just do not know if the deaths/incident is worse today. Most likely it is not.

What I do know is that violet behavior in girls, who frequent schools, to have gone up quite a bit in the past several years. I watched this off the 6:30 news, and it was reported by the F.B.I. So no hype there friend.
Good news, the boys have gone down.

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I actually do not have any numbers on the increase in private schools in the nation.
Nor do I have numbers on the increase in Charter school funding from the Feds. (potintialy less money to public school when this happens.)

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I was also hinting at a conspiracy that involves.

A. The failure of the public school.
B. The rise of the private school.

The reason: The businesses that would run these private schools would make a fortune. As we all know, there are plenty of kids around.