This is bad, yet it may be true that "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." A backpack, such as this, might also provide some measure of protection from stray dogs or other similar problems.

Historically, there have been many periods of violence associated with going to school. Partly, I think it is because large groups of vulnerable people are available as they travel to school.

Sometimes teachers are targeted.

In her biography, Letter On An Elk Hunt By a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stuart, living across the 19th and 20th century here on the Great Plains, tells the...

This is bad, yet it may be true that "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." A backpack, such as this, might also provide some measure of protection from stray dogs or other similar problems.

Historically, there have been many periods of violence associated with going to school. Partly, I think it is because large groups of vulnerable people are available as they travel to school.

Sometimes teachers are targeted.

In her biography, Letter On An Elk Hunt By a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stuart, living across the 19th and 20th century here on the Great Plains, tells the story of her teacher being hung at the school in front of his very young students.

This story seemed to be a replay of an archetype well explained in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving....jealousy over a woman and education leads to death. Yes, the prettified version of this story is that Ichabod Crane ran off, never to be seen again....