Gallup Poll Shows Children Worried About School Safety
A growing number of children have expressed fears about safety at their schools, particularly in public schools, a new Gallup poll showed.
The poll, taken from Aug. 3 through Aug. 7, also showed parents' concerns for their children have mostly remained steady at 28 percent since 2009, except for a short spike in 2012 after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 28 dead.
Gallup has been documenting parents' level of worry over school safety for some 18 years and found spikes in concern coincide with shooting incidents, including a spike to 55 percent of parents after the 1999 Columbine High School shooting that left 12 students and a teacher dead, and 45 percent after the 2001 Santana High School shooting in California that left two dead.