
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 21, 1992                   TAG: 9203230173
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT . . .

FRANKLIN County Schools Superintendent Leonard Gereau blames the news media in part for some of the recent gun incidents in local schools. A January series of articles in this newspaper about kids and guns may have given some students the idea to carry a firearm, he says. "I just think that tends to lead to more of it."

So, would he prefer that the public not be told what's going on - that a problem exists and is growing? Would he prefer that we not mention the Franklin County School Board's decision this week to expell a 14-year-old who had brandished a .357-caliber pistol in geography class? Does he think the kid was spending too much time reading newspapers?

by CNB