Parents' Source , November 20, 2000. When parents send their children off to school, they want to believe that their kids are in a safe, healthy environment.
Nothing is more frightening than to hear about school shootings in the news.
Parents, teachers, and the whole community struggle to understand what would cause such a tragedy and how it could have been prevented. In 1999, in response to the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, the bureau held a symposium to study school shootings. The principles derived from that symposium, along with the FBI's nearly 25 years of studying threat assessment, have led to this report. The fact is, no way has yet been found to identify students who are at risk of committing violent acts. And creating strict security precautions without understanding the underlying nature of the problem is not an effective solution.