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Massachusetts School Violence Rampant in Middle Schools

Middle school violence in Massachusetts is running rampant. Boston.com offers these statistics:

Violence in Schools In suburban and rural Massachusetts middle schools during 2005-06:

• 4,750 reports of violence (fights, robbery, sexual assault, threats of violence)
  
• 484 drug, alcohol, and tobacco offenses
  
• 290 sexual harassment cases
  
• 383 weapons found
  

If you add all these up, you get 5907 incidents that occurred in a one year period of time only in middle schools in Massachusetts. If you use a 200 day school year, that averages out to almost 30 acts of school violence per day.

For more Massachusetts school violence statistics, read Massachusetts School Safety and Violence Statistics.

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Massachusetts personal injury lawyer, Thomas M. Kiley, is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and is a respected member of the American Association for Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

The personal injury attorneys at the Law Office of Kiley Law Group are dedicated to helping the victims of:

• Car, motorcycle, truck, van or bus accident
• Single vehicle accidents such as SUV or 15-passenger van rollovers
• Pedestrian accidents such as a hit and run
• Defective products such as ineffective airbags or seatbelts, prescription drugs with unpublicized side-effects, or hazardous children's toys
• Child injury and child abuse such as negligence
• Birth injuries such as trauma during labor or cerebral palsy

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The firm's headquarters are in Andover, MA and serves the following cities in Massachusetts: Boston, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Middleton, Reading, and Salem, MA and Salem, New Hampshire.