Now this terrible tragedy doesn’t give one a sense of confidence when sending your children to school. What a horrible thing to do to innocent children too. There is never any justification for crimes like this. Something is deeply wrong with American culture and schools when this happens. Security guards and metal detectors in a school is not normal but obviously necessary in the US. How can things like this be allowed to happen and so often in American schools and nothing ever changes?
The culture of bullying is often depicted on American TV shows and movies; making it seem to be part of the way of life. But what are the schools actually doing to prevent bullying and detecting at risk children from taking a gun or knife to school? How many decades is it going to take before the American education system is held accountable for allowing such a toxic environment to exist? The buck stops with the government.
We don’t know what made this young man do this and may never know. But just stop and think of all the shootings in American schools done by children that were bullied. Why were things allowed to escalate in each individual situation? What are parents doing to prevent this and talking to their children if they are victims of abuse and bullying? What are the parents of bullies doing to prevent their child from being a bully and the possible flow on effects to other children? Obviously not enough is being done to prevent this sort of thing happening. Australia has issues too with bullying and we don’t want to see things turn out like the American situation and we are inches away from going this way. Humans lives are at stake and the mental health of innocent children.
Adults have the power in their own hands to take action, how many more children must die or be injured physically and mentally before something actually gets done? This is a national level of care and justice, look behind each and individual case for the real reasons and fix it. We owe every child this and it should never be negotiable. How much do you value a child’s life?
