There is no one-size-fits-all descriptor for a student attacker, Dr. Alathari said, but there are certain things schools can be on alert for. When a student sees a disturbing post on social media by a classmate, for example, or a teacher sees a student suddenly withdrawing from schoolwork, those behaviors can be reported to a threat assessment team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If it is a transient threat, something said out of anger without the weapons to act on it, it can be handled with informal counseling or light disciplinary action, such as a notice to parents, said Amanda Nickerson, the director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention at the University at Buffalo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The whole thing is worth a read.<\/p>\n
The solution requires intelligence, discernment and patience.<\/p>\n
The education bureaucracy will hate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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