‘Troubling’ rise in weapons seized by CCSD raises questions on student motives – By Casey Harrison (Las Vegas Sun) / Dec 12 2021
The number of weapons confiscated from students at Clark County School District campuses has risen nearly 30% since the 2019-20 academic year, corroborating what experts and educators have called a spike in troublesome behavior among schoolchildren since the return of in-person learning nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
The school district has recovered at least 119 weapons from students at CCSD campuses from Aug. 9 through Dec. 1, according to the district’s latest firearms confiscation report. That’s compared with the 92 weapons taken Aug. 12-Dec. 5, 2019 — the last academic year before the pandemic forced an overwhelming majority students across the country to online learning — for a 29.3% increase.
That trend backs up claims by CCSD Police, educators and parents that fights and other “behavioral incidents” have climbed significantly earlier this year.
“It’s like if you don’t do your math homework long enough, you forget the math,” said Adam Gent, a physical education and health teacher at Spring Valley High School who launched Hope Squad, a peer-to-peer intervention program that aims to prevent suicides. “These kids, they’ve forgotten how to be students. They’ve forgotten, almost, how to act.”
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