Students feel safe at school.
In fact, they often feel safer at school than they do outside school, report researchers from the Center for Injury Control at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. The study was conducted earlier this year at 15 public middle and high schools across Georgia at the request of Gov. Zell Miller's blue ribbon committee, the Council for School Performance. Schools used the funds to purchase video surveillance cameras, metal detectors, security systems, communications equipment and fencing. According to the researchers, the equipment has brought mixed reactions from Georgia's students, teachers and administrators, some of whom worry it fuels perceptions that schools are unsafe. The researchers found inconsistencies between a school's stated needs and the safety interventions it chose.