Lessons Unlearned.

• Author: Rimensnyder, Sara
• Position: Efforts to prepare for school shootings - Brief Article

Politicians are looking for lessons from the murders at Santana High in Santee, California. Here's one they might miss: An awful lot of the "lessons" learned at Colorado's Columbine High seem not to be true.

Santana administrators had taken every measure to prevent or prepare for a Columbine-style tragedy. Every classroom had a telephone. Experts had wired the campus with extra radios and loudspeakers, and the principal was SWAT-trained to handle hostage situations. The dress code forbade "hateful images," gangsta wear, and...