The Department of Education investigated 150 claims of sexual violence at elementary and high schools last year — a jump of more than 500percentt from just three years before.
Instead, the lead-up to this week has suggested another more straightforward path: that the party will seek to make adult sentences out of Trump's elementary babble, channelling his violence-inducing anger into a political message that party insiders can actually decipher, and maybe even endorse.
This elementary commitment to permanently renouncing violence in the resolution of political differences has unfortunately not been kept by the present Palestinian leadership.
My hope is that something similar can be replicated for other complex conundrums, such as America's ongoing healthcare crisis; the scourge of gun violence oppressing our elementary, middle and high school students; and the slough of increasingly dire global climate changes that will, in short order if not already, be irreversible.
Frankly, we are no longer safe from gun violence in our elementary, middle or high schools, universities, houses of worship, shopping malls, workplaces or even military bases.
The failure of the legislation can hardly be attributed to Obama, who pressed for measures to reduce gun violence after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., took the lives of 20 children and six educators.
And so on, through the interminable rituals of legalistic nyah-nyahing, group dominance struggles, and occasional violence that comprise elementary-school playground life.
What do you think of the conversation we've been having in the United States about games and violence since the elementary-school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in December? A. That's a difficult question.
Gun violence happened before Sandy Hook elementary and the Aurora theater shooting.
Arne Duncan and other community leaders hosted an anti-violence rally at an elementary school on the Southside.
