Dr. Kenneth Dodge was one of the first scientists to study violence in schools. But his research was dismissed by many national educators as overreaction. The solutions to school violence has been there all along. They have been warned about the escalation of school violence but few have taken action. The boys who committed the shootings in Arkansas fit the psychological model of sociopaths.
Sociopathic children exhibit clear verbal and nonverbal signs.
If the staff had been properly trained to identify these signs, intervention could have happened. Yeager agrees with Janet Reno's report that a School Safety Assessment must be the starting point for all schools. We can not push this issue to the bottom of the pile. School safety must be a priority. Politicians and special interest groups in Washington DC would like America to believe that this increase in school violence is related to movies, television or video games.