I have been thinking a lot about these SCHOOL shootings and find that School is the operative word here. These are not just school shootings, they are suicides with anger at the injustices that these people feel have been perpetrated on them by the school system and the pressures put on them to succeed. Children are pushed, shammed, and brow beaten. They rebel. They feel that they have no future. Remember when you were in school and it felt like your whole world We didn't have the experience to know that it is just a beginning to life, that it is not the only determining factor to a happy life.
So, teachers are mandatory reporters of child abuse and are on the front line of humanity everyday. These teachers should have a way to refer the troubled children they see in their classes to professionals who can connect with them and refer them to the help they need or at the very least listen to them and advise them. I think this would cost less than a campaign for gun control.
These incidences are occurring all to often and I think we must rethink the way children are treated in our society. They are people, with feelings that are tender and fragile. They can be hurt and can hurt back. It is time to find a way to teach children that they can be a success in life what ever route they take, that happiness can be achieved in any color collar you choose to where. And that not all people are intended for Ivy league colleges and you are not a looser if you don't go that route.
These are Suicides with Anger and it breaks my heart.
School is different these days than when most of us were in school. When the bell rings for my 5 year old grandson, all the children stop and put their hands on their heads like little convicts. Maybe they are just training them for the free labor force we call prison. It's a scary proposition. Love, Mrs. Mad
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