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US School Violence Fast Facts
Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is not included in the fatality totals.
Because there is no central database tracking school violence incidents, this list is based primarily on media reports and may not be complete or representative of all incidents.
US Timeline (selected only)
March 1, 2021 – Watson Chapel Junior High – Pine Bluff, Arkansas. A student is fatally shot, and a 15-year-old male suspect is arrested.
May 18, 2018 – Santa Fe High School – Santa Fe, Texas. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, allegedly opens fire killing 10 and injuring 13. Pagourtzis is arrested and charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant. In November 2019, he is declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
January 23, 2018 – Marshall County High School – Benton, Kentucky. Gabriel R. Parker, 15, allegedly opens fire killing two and injuring 18 others. The suspect is arrested at the scene and later charged with two counts of murder and 14 counts of first degree assault.
December 7, 2017 – Aztec High School – Aztec, New Mexico. William Atchison shoots and kills students Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez. Atchison, a former student at the high school, dies of what police believe to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The eight other members of the Upper Perkiomen School Board joined the more than 4,600 people who have signed a petition calling for Raeann Hofkin to resign from the school board.
With the exception of board member Keith McCarrick, who said at the start of the meeting he would not take a position on Hofkin s retweeting of transphobic memes about Dr. Rachel Levine, all other board members condemned her actions during Thursday night s school board meeting.
Once every board member had spoken and asked Hofkin to resign, McCarrick said, he too, is calling on Hofkin to resign.
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School Board President Melanie Cunningham also announced that effective immediately Hofkin has been removed from all school board committees on which she sat.
LOWER POTTSGROVEÂ â Perhaps no time is leadership considered more essential than during a crisis.
No one would question that the global coronavirus pandemic has put that proposition to the test on many fronts â not the least of which is on public school systems.
Also, few would argue that changing leadership during a crisis can be a difficult course to navigate, with almost as many potential hazards as benefits.
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But that is a course on which the Pottsgrove School Board now finds itself with the public revelation at the last meeting of the year that all three of the district s top leaders will retire in June.