The school shootings that weren’t

[Big Dipper]

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.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

 

[jrbfishn]

The trouble is, liberals don't care if the info is wrong, intentional or not, or if they have to outright lie about the numbers. They will happily report them anyway.

from an idjit coffeeholic

 

[Kar98]

The irony here is that it was NPR who investigated and found the truth.

 

[Pops1955]

Yup. High irony. Not sure what we expect from school management that is populated with academics. Amazed that NPR actually decided to be the journalist instead of political hacks. BUT remember the folks they trust, like Everytown for Gun Safty, are the ones they trust soooo............

 

[busykngt]

NPR *is* a hack in my opinion! You can’t hardly get more Left leaning than they are (on virtually every topic they cover).

 

[jrbfishn]

This is why it is ironic that they are reporting the falsehoods they should be screaming about.

from an idjit coffeeholic

 

[busykngt]

And further irony the tax payers help them to do so. (Aren’t they still partially funded by the government?)