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But along with all these advancements, we also now have more problems.
In my freshman and sophomore year the things I was scared of in highschool were things like low grades and getting called on by a teacher when I wasn’t paying attention. Now as a junior, I have found myself worrying about someone coming into my school with a gun, and reading multiple articles and posts about this topic, I know I’m not the only one with that fear.
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Amanda Litvinov, a writer for neaToday states, “A 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center conducted two months after this year’s February school shooting in Parkland, Fla., showed that 57 percent of U.S. teenagers are worried that a shooting could take place at their own school.” Over half of the students in this set of data stated they have felt worried about going to school in fear of a shooting.
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As a student currently in highschool, I feel as though this matter should be taken seriously and that schools need to focus on this issue more so they can find a solution to fix it.
Obviously there is not really a way to figure out why people do these things, each shooter from past school shootings have had a different motive.
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The thing we can figure out ways to prevent likes from being taken from these shooters. There have been multiple ideas that different schools and communities have come up with to try to solve this problem.
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One of the ideas a school had was that schools shouldn’t hide information about when something’s going on within their school. School’s need to inform their students and the parents of their students (Cranely). If school’s don’t inform their members when there is a threat, people are not aware and then if a shooting did occur, students may be alarmed and confused and may not do everything they’re told in order to protect themselves. By letting everyone know what is happening when the school gets a threat or anything that raises red flags in their minds, students and teachers will understand better what they need to do.
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Although schools have new computers and more class options, is it really worth it if students are going to remain afraid of dying there?
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What kind of information do you think schools need to share? How do they know when and how much to share?
ReplyDeleteIs the chart about school shooters' motives from the shooters themselves, or does this show what people tend to believe about school shooters?
I think that schools should share information when the administrators receive it themselves. Parents need to know if there are any threats that are happening at the school their child is currently at. The school doesn't have to share every single detail such as who the threat might me from, but people should be aware of the fact that there is a threat.
ReplyDeleteThe chart about school shooters' motives is from the shooters themselves. The chart does not show data from every school shooter but it does show the reasons why a few school shooters' did what they did.
I completely agree with what you're saying. I fear that the possibility keeps growing that a school shooting could happen. Also great job raising the question "why haven't we stopped this?"
ReplyDeleteIt is scary and hopefully someday mental health will get more attention and more funding!
ReplyDeleteThis information seems to be really accurate according to my fellow classmates. It's scary to think that so many schools have had school shooters, and knowing there's a possibility it could potentially happen to our school, and nobody is prepared. I agree that we should have more sensory breaks in class to get our minds off of the work and to calm our brains.
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