Mass Shootings and School Discipline
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Max Eden joins Seth Barron to discuss recent mass shootings in American high schools and how misguided approaches to school safety can play a role in some of these massacres.
In the aftermath of horrific shootings at high schools in Florida and Texas, the political debate has focused largely on the role of guns in American society. Mostly ignored is how school districts fail to take action on students with documented histories of threats, violence, or mental illness.
The school district in Broward County, Florida, for example, which includes Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, created the "Promise" program to counsel students who commit minor crimes, as an alternative to involving law enforcement. After repeated denials by school administrators, it was revealed that Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at the school, was previously assigned to the program, rather than being referred to authorities. But that's just one example.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Ten Blocks. |
| 0:26.6 | This is Seth Barron, Associate Editor of City Journal. |
| 0:29.6 | Another school massacre shook the country recently, this time in Texas. |
| 0:33.6 | What is driving these horrible events and what can we do to stop them? |
| 0:38.1 | I'm joined by Max Eden, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
| 0:42.0 | Max studies education policy and schools with a recent emphasis on school discipline. |
| 0:47.2 | He writes frequently for City Journal as published in a wide variety of other publications as well. |
| 0:52.7 | Thanks for joining us, Max. |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah, thanks for having me, Seth. |
| 0:55.2 | So why are there so many school shootings in the United States? It seems like we have them |
| 1:01.7 | several times a year where a lot of people are killed. Other countries don't have this problem. |
| 1:07.2 | What's going on? Yeah, I mean, I think there are a few things to tease out. |
| 1:12.3 | One is obviously a factor of size. |
| 1:14.5 | We have more people than many other countries combined. |
| 1:17.3 | So to do a comparison of the U.S. to France is so much superior. |
| 1:21.4 | However, still at a per capita rate, we do have more than average, despite the kind of expansions |
| 1:28.2 | of this you see in the news, the United States, is unusual in this regard. |
| 1:32.1 | And I think that the first and the most obvious part of it, but part of it that we need to |
| 1:36.4 | be responsible and how we kind of place is guns. |
| 1:40.5 | There's easier access to firearms in the United States than there are in other countries. |
| 1:45.6 | You look at this most recent school shooting. |
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