Sarabeth Spitzer, MD, MPH, a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, presented the study results looking at school redistricting data, firearm injury incident data, and community-level sociodemographic data for 63,000 urban census tracts on a year-to-year basis from 2014 through the 2019-2020 school year. The study used data from the National Center for Education Statistics, Gun Violence Archive, and the American Community Survey.
Dr. Spitzer explained how the study defined school redistricting: "School redistricting, at its most basic level, is when there are changes to where kids go to school based on their home address," she said. "This happens for various reasons, often due to resource distribution in a community." Only a few kids are affected, but the resulting impact is that there is social destabilization in some way because, as everyone who has attended middle school and high school knows, you get to know the community that you're a part of and there are social hierarchies that exist and a known quantity of the people in your area. When you have this shuffling of school districts, it means that there are new social interactions and new hierarchies that need to be formed.
Related StoriesThis means policymakers could target resources, such as sending in counselors and expanding training in the ACS STOP THE BLEED® program, to address firearm violence in areas that undergo school redistricting, she added. The ACS STOP THE BLEED® program provides training to anyone to save a life in a bleeding emergency. It has trained more than 3 million people. The ACS operates the program under a license granted by the Department of Defense.
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