RFP Staff/N.C. Department of Public Instruction
♦ The latest report from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction on crimes occurring in all its school districts and individual schools, including the Rowan-Salisbury School System, was released March 3rd on DPI’s website. The full reports will be posted below. In a nutshell the report shows schools within the Rowan-Salisbury School System suffering a rise in violent crime including 16 assaults reported in the 2014-2015 (the latest). 10 of those assaults were on school personnel. These assaults represent a rise over the previous year 2013-2014. Noted in the 2014-2015 report was a single sexual assault and 4 assaults with weapons took place.
Are school reports on actual assaults and crimes accurate? School systems, like some police chiefs, often try to “look good” and may underreport their statistics. Very often the Rowan-Salisbury Schools will not report lockdowns and fights on school property that parents, neighbors, and teachers report. So reader be cautious in accepting these reports as fact. Consider that assaults take place all over the Salisbury and other hardnose Rowan municipalities on any given day. Would it not follow that assaults and fights take place in Salisbury High School and North Rowan High School? They do.
Another interesting statistic in 2014-2015 was that Rowan-Salisbury School students were handed 3,552 short-term suspensions a rise from 2013-2014’s 3,107 short-term suspensions.
The N.C. Department of Public Instructions 16 Reportable Offenses:
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/research/discipline/offenses/
Consolidated DISCIPLINE Reports: 2014-2015 Reports for all Rowan-Salisbury School System Schools (go to Crime and Violence Table C-6 2014-15 pdf, 799kb and do a word search on Salisbury):
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/research/discipline/reports/#consolidated
Reportable Public School Crimes/Consequences Increase 2014-15–Long Term Suspensions Decrease Slightly:
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/newsroom/news/2015-16/20160303-01
