https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

"This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports."

Wow.

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:45:55 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

"This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports."

Wow.

In Chicago, a great number of the shootings are being done by kids who should be in school against
other kids who should be in school. So, maybe that's where they get those high numbers.

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:45:55 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

"This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports."

Wow.

People who actually looked into this understood it. If 2 drug dealers
get into a beef across the street from a school at 2AM, it was a
school shooting, whether a shot was fired or not.
I have even seen headlines about shootings that said the person was
stabbed if you got down into the article a line or two.