not that you neccicarily have the time or energy, but you would have a great voice for this issue. You always have such a clear, articulate and open view on these topics. Instead of accusing or placing blame immediately, you always seem to go directly for exploration and a resolution. There needs to be a forum of awareness and education with resources for help. Kids bring guns and knives to school all the time and we don't hear about it unless it escalates to an incident. And how about teachers be educated on early warning signs of those who could become dangerous? Not that it should be all on the teachers, but the devistating occurances are usually kids that didn't or couldn't tap into help and parents that were ignoring or even contributing to the behavior. I don't know if there is such a resource nationally for educators, but you should consider submitting this, or a version of this, to a large-scale trade paper or forum. with attention and love ~Christine
There needs to be a forum of awareness and education with resources for help. Kids bring guns and knives to school all the time and we don't hear about it unless it escalates to an incident. And how about teachers be educated on early warning signs of those who could become dangerous? Not that it should be all on the teachers, but the devistating occurances are usually kids that didn't or couldn't tap into help and parents that were ignoring or even contributing to the behavior.I sincerely appreciate your input and kind words. I hadn't even considered much of this. Maybe this was naive of me, but I hadn't even considered the notion that a proportionately large percentage of adolescents might have, at some point, carried a weapon to school. Doing some superficial research, I've found that it's as high as 17% admitting that they've (a survey of high schoolers) carried a weapon to school in the month prior to the survey. That is astonishing to me. I didn't even own a pocket knife until senior year in high school
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There needs to be a forum of awareness and education with resources for help. Kids bring guns and knives to school all the time and we don't hear about it unless it escalates to an incident. And how about teachers be educated on early warning signs of those who could become dangerous? Not that it should be all on the teachers, but the devistating occurances are usually kids that didn't or couldn't tap into help and parents that were ignoring or even contributing to the behavior.
I don't know if there is such a resource nationally for educators, but you should consider submitting this, or a version of this, to a large-scale trade paper or forum.
with attention and love ~Christine
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