Really? And they want armed staff in schools?

When I started this blog in 2012, it was a way to write without always sending editorials to newspapers. The Current and the AC Press knew my story. I wouldn't let them forget. 

In 2018, I had a staycation. I started writing a "workshop",  posting information from the past. You can sit for hours in a room and not learn anything more than you can with one post. If it is others who inspire me, I thought I could inspire too.

I do not advocate for new guns laws. Life is a bell curve. We have the extremes doing things that ruin it for the rest of society. Laws get broken. I break with those, who had failures at their schools, who blame the gun. I think the fight against the Second Ammendment is dangerous.

Almost every  YT video I open has a father of a dead child from Sandy Hook Elementary School. Those parents never want us to forget. Much of their work is against the gun.

How about bombs and threats? Advocating for gun laws will not stop swatting or pipe bombs.

I would not advocate for armed staff unless it is an SRO. And even with SRO's, it would help to be on school grounds. Bend, Oregon had one SRO per reports. He was not on campus at the critical moments.

This is a gun story. It did not end in tragedy. However, it does involve staff and a too close for comfort school incident. It is not cool.

Who owned the gun? Who accessed it? Compare how the situation was handled compared to Newport News and JT.

https://youtu.be/LPpiap8TWiM?is=aOcxWOYHmuCTUokh

https://youtube.com/shorts/YbZ-5eFrE9o?is=Uk-dnqzl8XCB9dgf

We can learn from these reports. Without living in fear or isolated, it is good to know especially if school aged children are primary concerns. 

Schools are vulnerable. Shootings happen due to human error, not the type of weapon. Once a gun makes it to school, how do staff react when there is time to do something before bullets strike? How about a knife?

The fear of violating policies and of the VP, Ebony Parker, in Newport News, seems to have frozen the staff in fear. Did you watch any of the testimony from the criminal trial of VP, EP? ( See yesterday's posts.)

Did you read "Are adults smarter than a fifth grader?" 

This video is a link about intervention. No one dead, girls in custody.  Revenge plans but no weapons accessed. The reporters ASK good questions. This police representatives answers.

Girls arrested for plot against their high school.

https://youtu.be/Jjn9IxT0TmA?is=Rxmyv0Kn7ZekduVO

From the Teacher's Desk with love,

Marian R. Carlino

October 21, 2026 (evening)

Back to the Future

What did they do in that movie?

This is a look at articles on school violence from 2025. I save some news that comes through as I do my research. I keep them as references. I was going to post several stories here. However, if you can digest these few in this post you are truly interested. Some information just breaks hearts. Keep going. Knowledge is power. 

Stephen King's Carrie, is on Primetime. Are your kids watching?

The first two links are about a plot foiled when girls planned to kill a classmate, two videos. The second one is how the parents of the targeted child respond. The plot was in 2024 but the dates on the videos are from 2025. The targeted boy is Autistic per article.

How old are the girls? How was the plot discovered? Not a white supremacy issue.

https://youtu.be/eAM5tKSf9N4?is=V1gQtaUg8zlpgVRt

What do the parents think? Lawsuits for getting information.

https://youtu.be/jZ8ij-jXYPw?is=-sbNOVuG2JxyoePR

The next link addresses how community's suffer from the impact of a school shooting: 

Marketing professors study school shootings. This is not discussed often but when you watch these events long enough, you do see patterns emerge. The Columbine Effect did not stay in Littleton.

Copy and paste: This article was published in July 2025. I highly recommend reading to see ripple effects.

https://theconversation.com/school-shootings-leave-lasting-scars-on-local-economies-research-shows-261350

Fourth link on Uvalde: Copy and paste

Uvalde, like Sandy Hook, got caught up with outside news and podcasters. My theory is that any type of plan can be foiled. You just have to have some knowledge and think, something does not smell right. There is risk in speaking up, but the stakes are high with murder, fraud etc.

I know getting information can be a legal battle even if no event happened.

People fought to keep information private at Uvalde and other schools Why? There is some information on the shooter in here. The mother was afraid of her son it states. This article is from August 2025. When was the Uvalde shooting? Information about the shooter states he had a problematic history. He did kill his grandmother first.

Families of victims had to fight to get information. If you are interested in the lengthy trial of the policeman, try the many lawtube channels. The trial was in January 2026.

Remember the groups that think everything is staged by the CIA or by people who want to take away all guns were part of the problem with Uvalde. Again, I do think these shooters not only have internal triggers but do talk to others. Get to know your child. The mother of this shooter had the grandmother care for him after a police call to the house a few months before the attack. What did the police do per the article?

https://www.wtae.com/article/uvalde-records/65675158?brzu=f41997e2aca7ba81ff08a8cdfa03daefa7d6d8fa616a822f4b3c135f7d9ec13d&lctg=67a78d549b5a3f007d24ec7e

Prevention, Intervention, Rescue and Recovery. It can be a choice of actions.

The father in Bend may have remembered Uvalde. Did the shooter's mother know of it? 

Bend is not the first shooting at a school that the shooter gained access by shooting into the building structure.

Fifth link: Part of the Colin Gray trial from earlier this year. Colin Gray is the shooters father. He was found guilty. (Trial was televised, and on YT)

The shooting occurred in 2024 at the start of the school year. The shooter shots rang out in Appalachia High School. The principal testifying works at the middle school. Part of the script is below the video under "more". Who cleaned up the graffiti? Any warning signs?

https://youtu.be/8G5rp7lQWcY?is=W3KL_aXdSd4hPDjq

From the Teacher's Desk with love, 

Marian R. Carlino

October 26, 2026