The news feeds pick up some stories that become national news. I don't know why one story is of greater interest than others but I do know we are to learn from those stories. I learned from the stories of the school shootings during the 1997-98 school year. From February 1996 through March 24, 1998, there were eight major news stories related to school shootings and massacres. From April 24, 1998 to June 15, 1998 there were four major events that made national and international news and several individual events that are not on the list to which I am referencing. I had had enough of the news, and saw the clear warning signs in my own class in March 1998. Too many incidents had happened in my class (and in previous years) to make me stick my head in the sand and think that a shooting incident could not happen in my class. I was thinking in terms of child assault prevention but did not know it at the time. Even the term copycat was not in my vocabulary.
