The physician’s Hippocratic Oath should certainly be applicable when it comes to institutions charged with educating our children.

From August 2011 through July 2012, the Little Rock Police were called 114 times to Forest Heights Middle School. Issues/charges were as follows:

• INTIMIDATION
• HARASSMENT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• CARRYING PROHIBITED WEAPON
• CARRYING PROHIBITED WEAPON
• INTIMIDATION
• LARCENY-FROM BUILDING
• LARCENY-MISCELLANEOUS
• DAMAGE PROPERTY-PRIVATE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• LARCENY-MISCELLANEOUS
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INFORMATION
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• LARCENY-FROM BUILDING
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• MARIJUANA-POSSESS
• HARASSMENT
• SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
• PICKUP JUVENILE
• INTIMIDATION
• INTIMIDATION
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• STORED VEHICLE
• ABANDONED VEHICLE
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INTIMIDATION
• INTIMIDATION
• HARASSMENT
• CRIMINAL TRESPASS
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• TERROR THREAT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• INFORMATION
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INTIMIDATION
• CRIMINAL TRESPASS
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE/DOMESTIC DISTURB
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• INTIMIDATION
• STORED VEHICLE
• FIELD INTERVIEW REPORT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INTIMIDATION
• FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTIION/CONFINE
• CRIMINAL TRESPASS
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• INTIMIDATION
• LARCENY-MISCELLANEOUS
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ARREST
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• RUNAWAY
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• LARCENY-MISCELLANEOUS
• RECEIVE STOLEN PROPERTY
• INTIMIDATION
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• AGGRAV ASSAULT-NONFAMILY-KNIFE
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• AGGRAV ASSAULT-POL OFF-STRONGARM
• INJURED PERSON
• RESISTING OFFICER/ARREST
• PICKUP JUVENILE
• INFORMATION
• INTIMIDATION
• HARASSMENT
• CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INTIMIDATION
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• ASSAULT/SIMPLE
• INTIMIDATION
• INTIMIDATION
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• LARCENY-FROM AUTO

To be fair, we’re gathering information on all schools in the district. But since an Associate Superintendent was quoted in the paper saying our middle schools are “safe and secure learning environments,” as with performance, I thought it best to confirm with data rather than taking our school leaders’ anecdotal word for it.

Primum non nocere.