Across four compelling chapters, readers will evaluate whether schools are safe, whether better gun policies can help, whether security measures make school more safe, and how health care interacts with student safety. Essays are sequenced in a pro versus con format to present readers with divergent views. Essayists include Selwyn Duke, Kristina Chew, Nell Gluckman, Kelly McBride, Cleopatra Andreadis, and Denise Martinez-Ramundo.