Wednesday’s violence at a Georgia high school and the arrest of a 14-year-old suspect follow a familiar pattern of previous school shootings. After every one, there’s been a tendency to ask, “How do we prevent the next one?”
For years, school safety experts, and even the U.S. Secret Service, have rallied around some very clear answers. Here’s what they say.
There’s broad consensus that arming teachers is not a good policy. That’s according to Matthew Mayer, a professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. He’s been studying school violence since before Columbine, and he’s part of a group of researchers who have published several position papers about why school shootings happen.
