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Anonymous user Tue Oct 17, 2006 09:51:41 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments School safety is a concern for districts and students. The Kern County Superintendent of Schools gave the California Healthy Kids Survey to seventh-, ninth- and 11th-grader in fall 2005 and spring 2006. Questions included how safe students felt at school, and if they had experienced safety-related incidents on school property during the past 12 months.
The Panama Buena Vista Union School District Parent Resource Center will address safety issues in upcoming workshops. An Internet safety session will cover how to monitor what children view online. Bakersfield Police officers will offer safety tips about social networking sites such as MySpace.
The first is from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Tevis Junior High, 3901 Pin Oak Blvd.
A workshop about how emergencies are handled at school, including what protocols parents need to know, will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 7 at Fred L. Thompson Junior High School, 4200 Planz Road.
A session about emergency preparedness at home will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14  also at Fred L. Thompson Junior High School.
To register for these sessions, call 397-2216.

Of the 6,500 seventh-grader
surveyed:

• 22 percent said they felt very safe at school

• 35 percent said they felt safe at school

• 6 percent said they felt unsafe at school

• 5 percent said they felt very unsafe at school

Of the 2,973 ninth-grader surveyed:

• 16 percent felt very safe at school

• 36 percent felt safe at school

• 40 percent felt neither safe nor unsafe at school

• 5 percent felt unsafe at school

• 3 percent felt very unsafe at school

Of the 2,503 11th-grader surveyed:

• 15 percent felt very safe at school

• 37 percent felt safe at school

• 39 percent felt neither safe nor unsafe at school

• 6 percent felt unsafe at school

• 3 percent felt very unsafe at school

Regarding incidents, seventh-grader reported:

• 33 percent had been harassed

• 30 percent had been in a fight

• 29 percent feared being in a fight

• 6 percent carried a gun

• 14 percent carried other weapons,

Ninth-grader reported:

• 27 percent had been harassed

• 23 percent had been in a fight

• 21 percent feared being in a fight

• 5 percent carried a gun

• 13 percent carried other weapons

Eleventh-grader reported:

• 24 percent had been harassed

• 20 percent had been in a fight

• 17 percent feared being in a fight

• 4 percent carried a gun

• 13 percent carried other weapons

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