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myohmy2

(3,118 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 09:46 AM Nov 2019

Should students refuse to attend school until adults can guarantee their safety?

LA Times, 11-16-2019

" Santa Clarita shooting. Thursday’s deadly shooting at Saugus High School unfolded over 16 seconds in which a student pulled out a gun in the quad area and opened fire, killing two classmates, wounding three others and fatally shooting himself, authorities said. As students were led off the grounds, one asked aloud a question surely on the minds of many others: “What kind of a world is this?” "

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-16/essential-california-santa-clarita-shooting-saugus
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...16 seconds...short of having an Old West quick-draw gun-slinger in every class room, I'm not sure what to do...

...but that's not the point nor the student's problem...would you work in a place where your life was being threatened daily and your employer could do or did nothing meaningful to guarantee your safety?...I wouldn't...

...maybe students need to form a Union and negotiate their work place safety...maybe students should take to the streets and not return until adults do something about guns and gun safety...maybe students should just go on strike and refuse to go to school...

...and now there's talk about the shooter having 'ghost guns' assembled out of pieces from the internet, unregistered and untraceable...

What do you think?

Should students refuse to attend school until adults can guarantee their safety?

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Should students refuse to attend school until adults can guarantee their safety? (Original Post) myohmy2 Nov 2019 OP
Something to consider ck4829 Nov 2019 #1
+1 2naSalit Nov 2019 #7
umm.. Interesting question to say the least. Should be discussed. riversedge Nov 2019 #2
Don't doubt for a second that it's the parents who are the ones really terrified... TreasonousBastard Nov 2019 #3
No. It would be republican dream come true. OldRed2450 Nov 2019 #4
What kind of world is this? Turbineguy Nov 2019 #5
If homeschooling had been an option in California exboyfil Nov 2019 #6

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. Don't doubt for a second that it's the parents who are the ones really terrified...
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 10:13 AM
Nov 2019

Losing a child is always a horror, and losing one this way can be most tragic of all.

It is our responsibility as adults to insure they are safe and to calm their fears. Parents should be leading the charge.

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
6. If homeschooling had been an option in California
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 10:50 AM
Nov 2019

for my parents when I was in school, I would have done it in a second. I was bullied unmercilessly until I moved to Mississippi before the start of 10th grade. Leaving California was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was very clear with the school system that I would never tolerate my daughters being bullied when they were growing up in Iowa. I would not have hesitated to pull them and homeschooled them.

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