Bill Dedman Quotes

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.

Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.