Everyone wants schools that are safe, where students, teachers and support staff can concentrate on learning and not have to worry about crime and violence. In this community dialogue, you'll be asked to discuss your ideas on the best way to ensure that schools are safe places for children to learn and grow.

Different approaches to school safety will have different benefits and different costs and challenges. To help you and your neighbors decide what is most important to you, we've created three hypothetical school communities, each of which has approached the issue of school safety in a different way. Which would you want for your own community and schools, and why?

• Teach students to resolve conflicts peacefully and provide social services to those in need
• Set behavioral standards with clear consequences and make students and their parents accountable
• Enhance school security and reinforce this in the community