One of the most critical questions facing American education today is how to make schools safer. Parents, teachers and administrators are concerned about bullying, sexual harassment and mass shootings in schools. post a thoughtful response, using a subject line that identifies the topic you chose. If you have experience as a student, parent, family member or educator of this issue, feel free to share it. You can include appropriate references and it would probably add to your comment but you do not need to.

Topic 1: What do you think that could and should be done to keep students safe from lethal acts of violence ? Would you advocate hiring more mental health specialists, more school safety police officers, "hardening buildings" to make it more difficult for shooters to break into buildings and classrooms, equipping students with bullet proof jackets and backpacks, training students to fight back? What are the benefits and limits of these approaches?