Schools

With the school shootings that have recently taken place I am left wondering what in the hell is this world comming to.

My daughter (mind you she is only 7) came home yesterday and stated that she never wants to go back to school. They now have metal detectors in the elementary schools and kids are required to remove all metal (including belts) before entering.

It is more of a prison now. The teachers are all keeping thier classroom doors locked, and physical education is now taking place in the school cafeteria instead of the playground.

Am I the only one that feels we should not be expecting little children to live this way in school? What happened to the times when I was a child and school was a safe place for everyone?

What the hell has this world come to and how much more are we willing to take before we stand up and take responsibility to raise our children so they will not grow up to be maniacs(sp?) that go shoot up other schools?

Our children may have to pay a price at this time, but how big of a price will our grandchildren pay if we continue to ignore everything and sweep it under the rug?

In the meantime most of society is too worried about what they are going to wear or which girl they want to realize that this has become a major problem

--Sher

Scuse me for swinging everyone around to reality here, but attacks on schoolchildren by psychoes are hardly a new thing. They're just a new thing to the sensationalist modern media corporations.

It's only about 5 years ago that a schoolteacher was badly wounded in an English school by a knife-wielding maniac intent on the murder of innocents. At the school I attended as a 6-year old a man was arrested for loitering. On him the police found a carving knife and a length of piano wire.

America, you love your guns. Yet you act surprised when some occasional breakdown of society renders the whole concept of "right to bear arms" as an ultimately evil and deviant privilege. And what a week you've had eh? How many students and teachers killed and injured, hmm?

Your kids are safe at school. There must easily be 200,000 schools across America. These occasional incidents are not indicative of your school system, they indicate a failure of a larger system that would be better serving to educate people than to lock them behind fences for their own protection and false sense of security.

Ed you are absolutely right! This is a problem that has been going on for years now. But my question is when are we going to pull our heads out of our butts and start taking back what has been so violently stolen from us?

When we no longer allow our children to attend schools without having to be locked up for the day then there is a major problem and that also means that someone has stolen (while we as a society allowed it) our sense of security!

--Sher

You're missing my point: assuming I was right about there being 200,000 schools, this week you could "safely" send your children off to be educated and there would be a 1 in 50,000 chance that the school would see no internationally advertised gun-related violence.

Instead of worrying about how to stop our children getting murdered, how about tighter control on the things people murder with, hmmm?

(Footnote: I am sure there are some card-carrying NRA yeehaws who will bring home defense and your ridiculously ambiguous constitution into this, and I look forward to the same old tired monologues defending gun ownership. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to pick my son up from an English school where I'm confident NO ONE will be packing heat.)

Yesterday I was walking out of the school library when the alarms went off. I am serious alarms. The woman made me walk through a couple of times but each time it went off. I was then asked to dump out my backpack to see if I had taken someting by mistake. Nope nothing. All I had was school work and an old magazine that I had to insist over and over again that it was mine. They made me go through again and this time nothing sounded. It might have been a battery in my backpack I took out when I had to show them my things that triggered it.

Sadly, Bob is right. Societal changes have loosened the fiber of family values. Parents do not spend enough time with their kids. The media and video games glorify violent behavior and because of the single parent household, or the parent that is too concerned with toys and how things appear, they don't spend enough time with their kids.

With these people rehabilitation happens after rigormortis. But, as a society, we are not content to let child abusers and killers swing at the end of their rope and sadly we make criminals out of the parents that do. Should someone hurt my child or someday, grandchild, I would become a criminal. Revenge would be quick and involve smelling salts, as there is no passing out during revenge, you will stay awake and enjoy it.

You know what? In 1996 in dunblane [scotland] 16 infants and their teacher were shot, before the b*stard shot himself.. I want my children to be safe and away from harm.. if that means they have to notch up security than so be it.. I would much rather my children be safely locked away than for any psycho person to walk in a school and shoot these innocent victims.. although if there was no threat then yes I would much rather them be free and live a normal life.. but sadly in this day and age You really CAN NOT be too careful

YOU'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BE TOO CAREFUL.

Jesus...

There have always been assholes. Just now there are assholes with guns and a personal agenda. Have a little look through history: the murder and violation of our children is NOT some new problem. It is merely publicized now.

Actually no, screw it. Does anyone know where I can get a suit of steel armour with a kevlar liner? I'm not having my kid going into a school where he's at constant risk of death from peers, paedophiles and perps. And to be on the safe side I'll be making sure he has a NBC suit underneath and never takes his gasmask off.

Yes school seem to be very dangerous.
I'm scared to go to school myself cause I always thought something was going to happening, like a shooting or bombing. Now I'm homeschooled and I feel so much better and don't have to worry about any of that, but still even at home I'm scared someone is going to break in and kill me.
This world is so crazy. I don't understand why people are doing what they do.
It's really sad =[

when i go to school theres always the fear in my head that something might happen and i might never be able to see my family again. every single morning. I had no idea that elementary schools have metal detectors!? Not one school in my school district has meatl detectors. I don't think kids ages 5-8 have any sort of weapons that they could use to harm another. They should have metal detectors for visitors, or any adult that enters the school including teachers and workers. You can't trust anybody in this world today.

personally if some-one aimed a gun at me, i think i would proably embrace it (i am not suicidal) but much worse things have happened at school, to me, my mates, people i know!

guess what some-ones done the statistics! out of 100.000 people in irak 60 die of gunwounds a year.

In washington (america's capital) which has the strictest gun control laws in the whole of america, out of 100,000 people in wahington 88.6. die of gunwound a year!

This means you are 25% more likely to get shot in washington than in irak!! (suggestion president move to irak)!

Am I the only one that feels we should not be expecting little children to live this way in school?

^^ Sherry , I completley agree here...THey shouldn't (at the young age of 7) be going through metal detectors and not know what the heck is going on...it would scare me if I was that young as well.
Then again, with the way things are now I think its good that they put metal detectors in elementary schools. Sadly, its not just high schools where the trouble starts, it's starting in elementary as well.

We do metal detectors from time to time and actually I wish we'd do them more often even though I still agree that children should not have to be going through this, but if thats the only way to keep us safe right now, so be it.

It is really a sad thing. I guess all you can do is pray for the children of the world because now imagine what it'll be like for your grandchildren..metal detectors now..whats later? Hopefully SOMEHOW things can change to a positive

I go to Empire High School. There's nothing really bad in that neighborhood but I'm not saying that I don't care. I care a lot about what happens in other schools and states.

Catherine

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