This week we're starting our first trilogy with Fear Street 1994! Join us as we learn about metal detectors and safe sex posters in schools, income inequality, "going postal", and more!

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Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself. American Red Cross. Wellcome Collection, available at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xxzetspp Shaun Sutner, "School Metal Detectors Seen as Necessary Annoyance," Washington Post, 8 October 1992. Laurell Shaper Walters, "US Education at Risk: School Violence Enters Suburbs," Christian Science Monitor, 19 April 1993. Jaclyn Schildkraut and Kathryn Grogan, "Are Metal Detectors Effective in Making Schools Safer?" WestED Justice and Prevention Research Center, available at https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED595716.pdf

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