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Slide 13

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Since the early 1990s CDC has been asking high school students if they felt too unsafe to go to school on any day during the previous month. From 1993 to early spring in 1999, the percentage reporting feeling too unsafe was stable at about 4%, or 1 student in a classroom of 25. After the shooting at Columbine High School the percentage of U.S. high school students feeling too unsafe to go to school jumped to 10%, or 3 students in every classroom. And the percentage stayed elevated � it was about 6% in 2001.

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