Easy to say after there was a shooting at that particular school, but if a school shut down for a day every time there's a warning about a shooting on social media or by phone, schools would be shutting pretty often. Prank calls, prank warnings on social media, students wanting to avoid tests or just prank for whatever reason. MOO
Heartbreaking, they understand the message. Horribly true.
True. I think one of the issues is the internet
Wouldn't the teacher and any classroom aides having one be enough in most emergencies? The idea being to get help from outside the classroom rather than every individual student contacting their parents for a final phone call? When you consider all the downsides to teaching in a room full of students with phones.
FWIW, I've noticed a change over the years and media do now refer to the shooters as "shooters." They might report the name initially, but seem to not continually repeat it like they used to.
I grew up in Des Moines, and there was a shooting at my junior high in 1972! I never knew about it, even though I went there just a few years later, until people started discussing it on that school's Facebook page. There was also a murder/suicide a decade later at a high school, between a boy, and a girl he had been pursuing/stalking who was not interested in him.
I do, especially if the parents were complicit in ANY way.
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Free speech doesn't cover this, as she knows now! Oh, yeah, I remember hearing things like that when I was a kid with an immature teenage brain.
Yes. And I would love it if LE when they give pressers, call the person “the coward”. I seriously think it could deter some of these people who feel ineffectual in life and want notoriety in death.FWIW, I've noticed a change over the years and media do now refer to the shooters as "shooters." They might report the name initially, but seem to not continually repeat it like they used to.
Just my observation, not a fact.
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Can they please just leave these kids alone? Give them at least 24 hours
She wanted to speak with them. She was incredibly composed, and said that it really hadn't hit her yet.
Oh ok good
We’ve been discussing this since Columbine and yet here we are. My late husband lost a relative (child) in Sandy Hook. I’ve had lots of thoughts but they may veer into political issues which are against the TOS and this is not the thread for this. Not today.
In California, where I teach, a school will go into a form of lockdown where each classroom is locked, no students can leave their classrooms without an adult chaperone (i.e. bathroom, etc). While this will not help the class that has the person with the gun if that person decides to follow through on their threat (and if the threat was viable), it does minimize/isolate the damage. I believe if the internal lockdown continues for a certain amount of time, an early release is called. We have had several "prank" threats in our area, and this is what has happened. Often, once families get word, they start picking their children up early. There was a HUGE issue when there was a viable threat, but LE asked the school to hold off so they could search the student's home and arrest them off campus. Families were very angry because their children went to school that day. The threat was discovered the night before, and LE wanted the school day to do their investigative work.
It looks like security was pretty good here. The doors lock, and anyone wanting access needs to be let in. That's the reason this gunman wasn't able to regain access to the classroom he was originally in. One of two things happened, and perhaps a combination of both:
