Threats of violence have sparked chaos at dozens of schools in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs since the beginning of the school year, leading to lockdowns, security screenings and days of

Chicago-area schools face a surge in violent threats leading to arrests, lockdowns, and calls for gun control.

Ohio schools have endured a spike in shooting and bomb threats this year, even before threats resulting from the GOP's baseless conspiracy about Haitian immigrants eating family pets led to school closures in Springfield,