By Star-Telegram Schools with enrollments as large as Columbine High School's are more likely to have alienated students and to suffer violence, some researchers say. Columbine High School has 1,800 students in grades nine through 12. Michael Klonsky, co-director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he was struck that Columbine students appeared to know about the suspects' affection for guns and their participation in Gothic culture, but administrators said they didn't. What's killing our kids is they become anonymous in the big high schools.
Kids drop out at huge rates and nobody even knew their names.
The people of Bath, Mich., a small farming town just outside Lansing, know differently. That horrific attack has been called the bloodiest ever on a U.S. school campus. Gov. Jesse Ventura said yesterday he regrets making comments that tied his push to loosen concealed weapons laws to the school shooting in Colorado. After the governor read the statement of regret, House lawmakers canceled a news conference they had scheduled to criticize him. Their bloodbath was intended as homage to the dictator's 110th birthday.