Well. Only once did someone get stabbed on school property. That's not counting kids who jumped each other after class, though it was fairly rare, since school policy is really clearly, "If you bring gang business here, you ruin this place for EVERYBODY, so don't." During those years, we also had three or four students or recent graduates die in shootings or drug overdoses.

Before I started working there, I was like, "PFFFT, GANGS AND SERIOUS CRIME IN A SMALL CANADIAN CITY. WHAT A RIDICULOUS NOTION."

So now, this assumption that crime and/or violence are like this sudden really clear earthshattering break in an otherwise idyllic school existence has gone out the window for me.