There has been much concern expressed in the press and on the airwaves about violence between students in our public schools.  In recent months, two students have been killed by their peers in separate high school incidents.

Lesser incidents rarely come to public attention, but they happen often enough.  A quick Internet search turned up data that there were a total of 55 Critical Incident Reports, mostly related to violence in schools, made (as required) to the Ministry of Education and Youth, between January 2022 and January 2023.  These 55 critical incidents occurred at 50 different schools (15 primary and 35 high schools).  Five of the schools had two critical incidents each.

Given that there are 190 school days in the school year, 55 incidents in a year equate to a critical incident happening somewhere in the education sector on average every 3.4 school days, or just about three incidents every two weeks.