It had been reported that the student who opened fire in his school's cafeteria yesterday in Washington State had sent tweets about his feelings over a break up with a girl and had broken a students's nose in a fight related to comments said during practice time on the football field. Not every act of violence will result in someone using a weapon to kill others. Nevertheless, it is important to remember that when the reports of school shootings happen, the "Monday morning quarterbacking" picks up the missed warning signs.
In conjunction with the information about the shootings that drew national and international attention this week, news broke that the report on Adam Lanza, the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary School, is going to be released soon. Preliminary newspaper results indicate behaviors were overlooked. According to a brief summary by Reuters reporter, Richard Weizel,
"Lanza was evaluated by therapists at the Yale Child Study Center in the years before he entered Newtown High School. Not only was he apparently not properly assessed, but no information from his Yale evaluations was shared with the Newtown school system, which he attended until his mother took him out of the 10th grade and home schooled him."
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| Students being led out of Sandy Hook Elementary School Are we not tired of school shootings and people saying, "I didn't think it could happen here.?" Are we all not vulnerable? Copy cat crimes are a reality. |
All children in every school has the right to safe.. there are no special rights, just special needs.
Speak up...it just may save a life.
Note: nothing was prevented in the school yesterday (October 24, 2014)/ a teacher may have tried to intervene but it was after the horse was out of the barn.
A movie worth watching to see the impact of a shooting in a school (suicide) is "To Save a Life". This move also addresses abortion:
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| What is the point of all this if you are not going to let it change you? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIeXZInnwI
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What is the point of all this if it is not going to change us when it comes to the sanctity of life?http://www.npr.org/2012/12/16/167412995/transcript-president-obama-at-sandy-hook-prayer-vigil
"But we, as a nation, we are left with some hard questions. Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around. With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves — our child — is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice. And every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm. And yet, we also know that with that child's very first step, and each step after that, they are separating from us; that we won't — that we can't always be there for them. They'll suffer sickness and setbacks and broken hearts and disappointments. And we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world without fear."
President Obama says he values children yet is pro-abortion.
What is the point of all this if it is not going to let this change us?
Marian Carlino
From the Teacher's Desk
Reuters, NPR and pictures from newspaper reports about Marysville, Washington and Newtown, Connecticut,
Reuters, NPR and pictures from newspaper reports about Marysville, Washington and Newtown, Connecticut,
