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I posted a Columbine thread, but this is pretty intense now. All the schools shut down in Denver due to the threat of a shooting. There are always some threats around the anniversary but with this year being the 20th (on the 20th) it is much bigger. Not fun running after school yesterday with the advanced knowledge and not being able to tell kids or parents why we were not outside. The news story broke later that evening.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/us/columbine-high-threat/index.html
Is your school shut down? Do staff report but kids stay home?
We are shut down, and our entire district, no staff reports. My district includes Columbine High School. I knew about this yesterday, got the call about 3:15 ish. I forgot my staff may get nervous as well, I had one that during a true lock down started freaking out. We were on lock out yesterday instead of lock down, some schools in the south and mountains were on lock down.
(lock out is when the doors are locked and entrance is either totally closed or heavily monitored. You can move around the building and do normal activities inside. We monitored and if the parent was not specifically for our program we turned them away. A lock down is when the school is closed, no one goes in or out, lights are off and students are in hiding, no one moves within the building.)
I left my dang summer planning binder at school too, stupid thing but I have a LOT to work on.
ToomuchStuff
4-17-19, 10:54am
So was there a threat, or is this common that someone says something in order to get schools to close (happens here when some big tests come, some kid makes a bomb threat, and if far enough back, some other kid calls it in or gets the rumor started enough, that no one knows who started it)?
Read the article and am confused by the "she did not make it directly" comment.
iris lilies
4-17-19, 10:59am
That is a lot of drama. I hope things go well the rest of the day.
TMS She came from out of state specifically because Columbine is here. That would mean that it isn't a test avoidance. I don't think the high schools are testing right now but I could be wrong, they are always testing! We have closings and threats at times, but nothing this large, ever. Probably based on all the times that one person killed a lot of people very quickly. The schools and police are very well prepared because we have been on alert for 20 years.
Thank you IL, I finally figured out some work I could do at home. And concerned about how our students are doing. I only had 2 yesterday who were shook up, one has extreme anxiety already. However they didn't know what was happening. I think the older kids are more affected, especially any who have been affected by gun violence already.
Teacher Terry
4-17-19, 11:29am
It’s so sad that schools are no longer safe.
Apparently she has been found dead of an apparent suicide.
Apparently she has been found dead of an apparent suicide.
Lots for kids to process in this,
Tragic in it's own way, but at least she didn't kill anyone else.
They just said on the news that 20,000 American students have experienced/witnessed shootings at their schools since Columbine. It seems like the emphasis is usually on the number of separate shootings, or total number of deaths (which are tragically high too of course) but when you think of it in terms of the number of children exposed, first hand, to such a trauma, it is just a mind boggling number. So awful.
ToomuchStuff
4-18-19, 12:41am
I have never quite understood why Columbine is the standard? School shootings go back to the 1700's in this country. Heck, a very popular song was about a school shooting by a female in the 1970's.
But I have had a different take, based on my school experience. (both gun and knife point in school)
Teacher Terry
4-18-19, 1:06am
My oldest is 45 and never had to worry about violence at school. We need to follow examples from other countries that have solved this problem.,
My oldest is 45 and never had to worry about violence at school. We need to follow examples from other countries that have solved this problem.,
Yes, stressing respect for life and consequences of actions would go a long way towards solving the violence problem in this country.
Teacher Terry
4-18-19, 10:23am
New Zealand took immediate action when it’s people were slaughtering.
New Zealand took immediate action when it’s people were slaughtering.
Yes, they treated them like subjects rather than citizens. Oddly enough, some people are really into that.
I have never quite understood why Columbine is the standard?
This was an interesting question. A quick google search turned up the Wikipedia page listing all school shootings. (I doubt Encylopedia Brittanica ever had An article about that...). Scrolling through the list most of the shootings up until recently involved 1, maybe 2 dead people, and almost always someone the shooter was angry with for some reason. In the decade or so leading up toColumbine things start to get worse and the victims seemingly more random but the number of dead are still low. Columbine, with 15 dead, was just a whole lot bigger than anything that had happened before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Yes, they treated them like subjects rather than citizens. Oddly enough, some people are really into that.
So in a country where the citizens are called subjects the government is actually concerned about their lives? Interesting concept.
Yes, stressing respect for life and consequences of actions would go a long way towards solving the violence problem in this country.
When you live in a country where constant wars are a way of life, corporations pay no taxes, the president is an unindicted co-conspirator, and basic health care is considered a luxury, it's not hard to see why people may see violence as the answer--especially when fetishizing of any and all weaponry is thought to be enshrined in the Constitution. Clearly, locking people up in numbers only rivaled by South Africa isn't working. Maybe we could look to more evolved countries for answers.
So in a country where the citizens are called subjects the government is actually concerned about their lives? Interesting concept.History says otherwise and I'm still surprised at how many people continue to enjoy seeing others subjugated. It's a mystery to me.
Personally i’m not convinced that our democratic republican government is particularly more or less interested in It’s citizen’s lives. With the exception of the corporate ‘people’ of course. They must be protected at all costs. The rest of us though? Meh. We’re completely expendable.
Personally i’m not convinced that our democratic republican government is particularly more or less interested in It’s citizen’s lives. With the exception of the corporate ‘people’ of course. They must be protected at all costs. The rest of us though? Meh. We’re completely expendable.
I had to laugh at the notions of "respect for life" and "consequences," as it's more than obvious that the plutocrats running the show here have neither. I guess such quaint concepts only apply to us workers and taxpayers.
Personally i’m not convinced that our democratic republican government is particularly more or less interested in It’s citizen’s lives.
Personally, I hope you’re right. The less interest the feds take in my life, the better.
ToomuchStuff
4-20-19, 2:37am
"Respect for life" doesn't always go hand in hand, with the though respect is earned.
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