monstrated that school violence is caused by many factors, all of which must be addressed in any effective solution to violence in schools. However, Lisa Barrios, who specializes in youth violence prevention programs at the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, believes that the sensationalized reporting of school shootings has often led to ôquick fixö solutions that do not take all these causative factors into consideration. For example, she notes that particularly after the horror of what happened in Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, parents, government officials, and the news media called for immediate solutions to school violence. Such solutions included restricting access to campuses so that students and others could not enter or leave during the school day, posting armed police officers in schools, increasing the us
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