As Newtown, Conn., students begin classes for the new school year, more than eight months after last December’s massacre of 26 teachers and children there, U.S. parents of school-aged children appear to be no more at ease than they were immediately after the incident. Thirty-three percent of K-12 parents say they fear for their oldest child’s safety at school, unchanged from last December, and higher than the 25% at the start of the 2012-2013 school year. [cont.]
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup