girl Wrote:
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> Given the high rates of suicide found in FCPS
Starting with garbage data is not a good idea. Here is a chart of suicide rates quickly found via Google (up to 2007):
Given this data and the FCPS student population of about 175,000:
http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:42:2291321588522132
you SHOULD expect about 15+ suicides in the student population per year under the most normal of situations.
Any suicide, of course, is silly and pretty much tragic but saying there is an extraordinary large number of them is just wrong - there are not.