The term "safe school" has become another of those terms that means many things and can be narrowly or widely interpreted. Physically safe school has always meant protecting students from physical danger.  If you were in schools in the 1950's and early 1960's in addition to fire drills, you may remember duck and cover drills.  Getting under a desk or going into the hall and covering your head to protect you from nuclear attack was as regular as leaving the building for a fire drill. Then, decades later, in 1999 the horrific Columbine school shooting took place.  That changed the meaning of safe schools forever. And, the change of meaning hasn't stopped.  Read more...