Courts Make School Safety Our Responsibility

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Byline: Denise Raleigh

Last week, a 15-year-old student at Downers Grove North High School admitted that he brought homemade bombs to school two times during the 1998-99 school year.

In an even more high-profile case, seven youths recently were expelled from their Decatur school after starting a brawl in the bleachers.

And on Monday, a 13-year-old boy in Oklahoma shot four other students.

As we all know, I could list many more shocking incidents where students were put in harm's way by fellow classmates.

I talked with the parent of another student at Downers Grove North soon after the second bomb was found. She was angry and frightened. Her child had …