A topic of recent conversation has concerned where are kids safer? The public schools/sector or the private theraputic sector?
Here's how the numbers break down in comparrison:
Out of 52,000,000 public school kids 16 were killed in school
Translating to 1 out of every 3,250,000 kids being killed.
Out of those 52,000,000 6 committed suicide while in school.
Translating to 1 out of 8,666,667 kids killing themselves.
Of those same 52,000,000 kids 2140 were killed outside of school.
Translating to 1 out of every 24,300 kids being killed.
Of those same 52,000,000 public school kids 1928 kids committed suicide outside of school.
Translating to roughly 1 out of every 27,000 kids committing suicide.
Out of 30,000 kids in the private theraputic sector so far we have 7 who were killed by staff members.
Translating to 1 out of every 4,286 kids being murdered by staff.
Of those same 30,000 kids 2 committed suicide.
Translating to 1 out of every 15,000 committing suicide.
This is of course for only one year June of 1999-July 2000
Based on these numbers we can easily see that the odds are higher a kid will die in the private theraputic sector over that of a public school or simply the public sector.