The School Shootings That Weren't

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The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Grayskies on Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:47 pm

The School Shootings That Weren't

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.


https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08 ... hat-werent

Of the 240 only 11 could be confirmed, and this is NPR debunking this, WoW!
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Re: The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Ghost on Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:16 am

That’s interesting
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Re: The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Rip Van Winkle on Wed Aug 29, 2018 4:36 am

Gee, who would'a thought out benevolent and magnanimous government would blatantly lie about something like this. :roll:
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Re: The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Holland&Holland on Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:22 am

What is most amazing is that NPR is reporting it.
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Re: The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Ghost on Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:24 am

Holland&Holland wrote:What is most amazing is that NPR is reporting it.

Yep
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Re: The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Grayskies on Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:51 am

Ghost wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:What is most amazing is that NPR is reporting it.

Yep

I can't get past this feeling that this is all a trap!
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Re: The School Shootings That Weren't

Postby Bearcatrp on Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:11 pm

Don’t be surprised when they retract the story due to the government pulling funding for reporting the truth. :o
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