A report by the Urban Institute showed that in the single school district of Washington, DC, there were at least 336 gunshots in the vicinity of schools over a single school year. And school shootings have long-term impacts on the school community as a whole: a recent analysis of school shootings found that those involving a homicide reduced student enrollment in the affected schools, and depressed studentsâ standardized test scores by nearly 5 percent.
Skull base chordoma symptoms may include: 1  Headache. 2  Double vision. 3  Facial pain.  Changes in 1  hearing. Difficulty swallowing.
1 Tumors in the spine can cause pain in the area of tumor (neck, back, or tailbone). 2  A tumor pressing on nearby nerves can cause symptoms similar to a slipped (herniated) disk. 3  These symptoms include arm or leg pain, weakness, or numbness.ost chordomas occur at the base of the spine (sacrum), in the tailbone (coccyx) or at the base of the skull (40 percent), but they can occur other places in the spine. Most patients with chordomas are between 40 and 70 years of age. Occasionally this tumor can occur in younger patients, even children.