Teasing and bullying. For so many kids, the teen years are traumatic and stressful. Some kids, in some tragic cases, have used guns to cope, raising questions about what can be done to make our schools safe. As well-intentioned as any of these efforts might be, I'm afraid there is little we can do to make schools secure. There's too much traffic.
Kids are too clever.
If a teenager wants to get a gun into a building, there's precious little we can do to prevent it. Better, I say, to focus on the little things. Students are told that they if they don't improve their grades, they will be held back. They don't, but they aren't. Stop being insubordinate.