January 2023: School Administrator
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Editor's Note
Educating About Violence Prevention
I’d honestly never thought much about a role for educators to play in curtailing the tragic number of injuries and deaths that befall school-age youngsters because of the easy access of firearms in their homes. That changed when I received a manuscript submission last May on this topic from Ken Mitchell, a longtime AASA member who serves as editor of AASA’s quarterly electronic publication, the Journal of Scholarship and Practice. He called his submission a “Dear Colleague” letter.
Mitchell brings a load of credibility to this issue from his four decades in public education, as he references in his My View commentary, “Unsecured Guns and the School-Home Partnership." Sadly, he’s no outside observer to gun violence in schools and beyond. In one episode, during his time as superintendent of a suburban school district in New York, he had to disarm a parent with mental illness who confronted him inside his school district office.
There’s a lot of common sense in his message.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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