Every school has its problems and fears. Though there is one of each every school has in common. It may not be publicly advertised. The school officials may not have even discussed it with there students. But it is there, haunting and threatening every single day. School Shootings; they are the common denominator throughout school systems in the world. Some schools have experienced them. Some have been fortunate enough not to experience it.

In the book NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME by Jaime Adoff, the high school has experienced a school shooting before, and there is every possibility that it will happen again. The principal is convinced that on the anniversary of the last shooting, someone will try it again. He is determined to “defuse” the bomb before it explodes. But what he doesn’t realize is that the danger may not be a student, but a parent instead.

Every school fears that a shooting could happen at any time. There problem is, that if no one comes forward, there is no way to stop it. The principal in the story fears for his students as well as for himself. His problem is, that he is so set on a student doing it, he doesn’t even think of the parents.