http://blog.evesun.com/2006/09/15/school-violence/ Reporters' Blog for the Evening Sun Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:54:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://blog.evesun.com/2006/09/15/school-violence/#comment-128 larry goodnature Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:54:48 +0000 http://blog.evesun.com/2006/09/15/school-violence/#comment-128 After a fourth grade student brought a gun into the elementary school in Hendricks MN on 2/27/06, a lid of absolute silence was clamped on the situation so that numerous parents found out only because their children talked about it. The story that resulted in a newspaper omitted details about conditions in that school which motivated one student to defend himself violently against bullies that were out of control. Yet, if you speak to the faculty or administrators, you often hear that there is no bullying problem and that they know nothing about any gun. School employees who did dare to speak up said that they were ordered to keep their mouths shut and feared that they would lose their jobs in they talked. They did allege, however, that serious incidents have been covered up such as a school employee who got some teenage boys drunk so that he could molest them. That, they claimed, was neither reported to the police nor mentioned in the media. After a fourth grade student brought a gun into the elementary school in Hendricks MN on 2/27/06, a lid of absolute silence was clamped on the situation so that numerous parents found out only because their children talked about it. The story that resulted in a newspaper omitted details about conditions in that school which motivated one student to defend himself violently against bullies that were out of control. Yet, if you speak to the faculty or administrators, you often hear that there is no bullying problem and that they know nothing about any gun. School employees who did dare to speak up said that they were ordered to keep their mouths shut and feared that they would lose their jobs in they talked. They did allege, however, that serious incidents have been covered up such as a school employee who got some teenage boys drunk so that he could molest them. That, they claimed, was neither reported to the police nor mentioned in the media.

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