School shooting at Parkland Florida. How can you protect your students?
Parkland Florida is about 4 hours from where I live. 17 people died from the shooting on Febuary 14,2018
People are blaming the gun not the shooter.
The sad thing is people are called for gun control and not blaming the shooter. The shooter was a student who was expelled from the school the year before. The 19 year old made the decision to go into that school and shoot people. He killed 17 people and injured more. The young man did the killing not the gun. The gun did not load it self. It did not aim it self and pull it's own trigger.
As a teacher how can you protect your students?
We all need to do a check in our classrooms to see where we can hide the children or get them out of the school.
We need to know which doors lock from inside the classroom and which ones don't. We need to have a procedure in place about what we should do in a event to protect our students. We need to have a safe place we can meet up with the rest of the teachers and students in case we are able to get out of the school. We need to do drills to practice what to do in case a event like this happens.
Talk to you students and explain the importance of what your doing and why.
Our students need to understand the importance of what your doing and why your doing it. Explain that it is a drill to try to keep them safe. The idea is if they are use to doing the drills it will be easier if the time ever comes that you might have to do it for real. If your lucky you and your students will never have to do it for real and only practice the drills. We as teachers need to do everything we possibly can to protect our student. By knowing what to do and how to do it is the best thing you can do for your students. And by teaching what to do and how to do it might help them in the future.
18 school shootings so far in 2018. That is a lot for a year that is only 7 weeks old. Am I over reacting? Maybe but the parents of my students need to know I will do what it takes to protect their children.
Awesome post about preparing kids for extreme events. I agree with you, drills and education are so incredibly important especially in these types of situations. I wish people would actually read this article instead of just talking about guns! But unfortunately that is the brainwashed society we live in these days..
Great post!
Thanks
18 school shootings so far in 2018 that is a scary statistic and the number of deaths is shocking and seems to be growing and something needs to be done.
Something needs to be done to make serious changes ot reduce the amount of violence and death we are seeing these, days aand i think there are many areas that need to be addressed but I do feel the current gun laws are one of the things that needs to be looked at and reviewed, but thats just my personal opinion and i know many think differently
My opinion is that the current gun laws are not being used. How else would someone with a mental illness get his hands on a gun?
I do agree and am no expert but in some states it’s clearly far to easy to get weapons for people who should not have them
They find a way some how to get their hands on guns
Yes that’s true
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Agreed. The shooter is the responsible party. Drilling students is a really good idea. So is a panic button. The disruption the media is making about gun control is sad that it is taking away from the real victims. 🐓🐓
While I realize that this is about safety and not guns, I'd like to point out that the 18 school shootings number is a deceptive statistic put out by the anti-gun Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. They include any time a firearm is discharged on school property - including college campuses.
3 were mass shootings - defined as more than 1 person was injured.
9 involved no deaths and no gunshot injuries.
2 were suicides, with no other injuries (including one at a former school that had been shut down 6 months prior).
3 were unintentional (although one caused injuries).
1 involved a robbery in a school parking lot.
Again, I realize that this post is about protecting the children but I believe that putting the school shootings are rampant narrative out there after a tragedy like Parkland does a disservice to the truth.
First, clearly this is a tragedy, and I hope none of my comments to come in any way belittle that tragedy. The fact that this seems to be happening so much more often is frightening, and it would seem some action or change is necessary to solve it.
I find this statement to be a little disingenuous. I don't think anyone who is in favor of stricter gun control would say that the shooter is not responsible for his actions. I have not heard anyone say that this shooter - or any of the recent mass killers - should not be punished, or is not the first cause behind the murders.
What gun control proponents are saying is that stricter gun regulations would make it harder for bad actors to acquire guns, and therefore they would not be able to do as much damage.
Now, I'm not really a partisan for either camp. Generally, I think people's belief in the efficacy of gun control is as misguided as those who believe every person should be walking around strapped with a gun. But I do think if any progress is to be made, each side must be willing to listen to, and respond to, the actual argument of the other side, rather than some twisted strawman.
Your post suggests that you don't think stricter gun control can help fight this problem. Do you have any suggestions on what might help?
Thanks for sharing.
Actually I was raised shooting guns. I don't own a gun now but that is my choice not to have one. I was taught to be responsible for my own actions.
My problem is people saying guns kill. I believe it is the people behind the gun that does the killing.
I have no problem with the current gun controls in place now. The problem is they are not being initiated and people are getting their hands on guns with out being screened first. And guns should not be sold from one person to another without going through some retail outlet. If the guidelines for guns being purchased were being followed there would be less of a problem.
Also I have heard the comment that guns kill a lot. And to answer your question if the gun control practices we have in place now are not being used. I don't think stricter regulations are going to help unless they take and enforce the ones we already have.
I agree that controls that are already in place can/should be enforced better.
Again, though, no one actually says "guns kill". The only time I ever see/hear that statement is when pro-gun people are complaining against pro-gun-control people. What liberal pro-gun-control people are saying is: "when there are a lot of guns around, more people are killed by people with guns. Therefore, if you take away the guns, fewer people will be killed by people with guns." And even if some emotional and imprecise person shouts, "Guns kill people!" no one actually believes that a gun commits murder without a person pulling the trigger. It's a strawman set up by the NRA.
Now, the argument that without guns fewer people will die from guns, and the implied argument that fewer people will be killed overall, is a debate worth having. There are legitimate points to favor either side.
My problem is, even with the increase of mass shootings this last decade or so, they are still much rarer, and cause less death, than the emotional impact that they generate would have us believe. They are visceral tragedies that get way more attention than other deaths, never mind the many lives possibly saved by having a gun to protect your home, etc. So, like I said, I don't know the right answer here. I just know that when someone on either side shows signs of anger and certainty, he's probably wrong. :)
If someone wants to kill people they will find away with guns or without guns. I have no way of knowing what you mean by strawman set up by the NRA. I think people are entitled to their own opinion. Fewer people will die without guns from guns might be right but it doesn't mean fewer people will die. People that want to kill people will do it one way or another.
I don't pay anymore attention to the NRA than I do about supporters of gun control. I know what my own opinion is.
Then allow me to clarify. A straw man argument is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone argues that a person holds a view that the person does not actually hold. Usually it is a silly view, so the debater can point at it and say, look how silly my opponent's argument is. It is an argument that is weak and easily goes to pieces - like a straw man.
So, when people attempt to support their position by claiming that people who want stricter gun control think only that guns kill people, rather than that people kill people - this is a straw man argument, since no one actually says or believes that. As I stated above.
I referred to it as the NRA's straw man, because the NRA is the lobby group who makes it their mission to publicly argue against gun controls of any kind. If they were not the original entity to come up with the straw man argument about "guns killing people", they are certainly the group that has done the most to popularize it. I know you say you don't follow the NRA, and that's fine. But your opinions, and my opinions, are shaped by many groups and individuals that we may not even have heard of, since ideas and culture can easily spread exponentially across a society.
This is a rather strange statement. The first question it raises is: what kind of opinion are you referring to? Are you talking about an opinion of taste, i.e., I like vanilla and you like chocolate? I agree, you are entitled to that opinion. And yet, to say you are entitled to it seems a bit odd, since I don't think anyone is going to try to restrict or contradict your opinions of taste.
However, in a discussion about guns, about laws, or about safety, we are not talking about opinions regarding taste. We are talking about opinions regarding facts. Now, the reason these are even considered opinions is that there is possibly a disagreement about the facts, or the meaning or the context surrounding the facts. But the existence of this disagreement does not mean that every opposing opinion has equal value. How could it? The most valuable opinions regarding facts are the ones which best correlate with truth and reality.
One would hope that we all want our opinions to correlate with truth and reality as much as possible, in which case we will keep an open mind to be swayed by new information if and when it becomes available. That being the case, the claim that you are entitled to your own opinion would seem to be a claim that you are entitled to deny reality if and when you so choose. And I don't think that's an entitlement anyone can afford.
I think you missed the most important part of my blog. That teachers need to take responsiblity and know their classroom and to be able to protect their students.
It seems to me you are pro gun control and are going to continue to press that point. Instead of the point of the childrens safety at school. And being told my opinion that the gun control laws we now have now needs to be enforced is of no importance.
I am not one who is of the entitlement generation. But my opinion is something I am allowed to have and you saying differently is an insult to me.
You seem to value your own opinion and care nothing of other peoples opinions. We all know people are going to be either pro gun control or against it. My opinion is that we need to enforce the gun control laws we now have in place.
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I usually try and stay away from topics like these but this time ill just add a few words.
Instead of looking who is to blame you guys should be looking at how to prevent this.
This tragedy was not a result of only one thing.
It was all those things people like to fight about.
Would have he killed those people had he been raised in a normal enviroment? Would he have killed so many if he didnt have easy access to those kinds of weapons? Would this happened if the FBI reacted when they should? Would it happened if he wasnt shunned from thr community for being odd? What if he was treated for his mental instability in time?
All of these things factor into this tragedy and only by improving on all those fronts will these kinds of things be avoided.
I might not be from US but im from a country that suffered a war in the 90s. and we had a lot of PTSP victims completely falling apart and doing things like this, although nowhere on this scale.
There was a lot of things that could of been done to prevent this shooting event. People knew he had the guns in a locked gun cabinet and thought the people he lived with had the only key. Also the FBI not investigating the reports when contacted about this young man.
His mental problems weighed heavy in the event and should of been taken for treatment. He was expelled from the school for behavior issues. Which is a common practice in schools in the US.
People knew he had problems and needed some kind of treatment. We seem to ignore what is going on in other peoples life.
Its what i call a "smartphone culture". (Which goes beyond the technology) "Keeping your head down only interested in your own business. "
The main point of this post is how as teachers what can we do to keep our students safe. It's only a small comment about the gun and the shooter. It makes me feel nobody read the rest of the post.
People always go for the most controversial topic. Its probably some kind of evolutionary thing. Yelling and shouting at the opposition. Thats why its hard to see anything substantional done to stop things like this. When both sides are at each others throats how can a consensus be made on anything. Sad really.
And the moderates, what chance do we have? We arent interesting enough because our arguments dont make the blood boil of either side. They automatically place you in one camp or the other.
Most people only react to "loud noises".
Can I give you an alternative to USA? The power of example let's say.
In Europe we don't have guns. We can apply for a permit and we can buy them. But we don't. So you can imagine how many shootings we have in our schools. So yes, it's not the guns that kill people, but it's the ease of getting that gun that kills people.So in my school when others had arguments they would wrestle and they would be taken to the principal. USA just escalates that rather fast. And it's not because of human nature, it's because of access to said weapons.
Did you read the rest of the post? It's about keeping our students safe.
Yes, but if we make it possible for people to buy mininukes and then train all the children to protect in case of mininuke attack, something is wrong..
I agree with protecting our children, and I support you 100%. But we must not forget that we need to change the mentality as a whole. Guns made more problems there than kept you safe, in my humble opinion.
If people want to kill or harm you they don't even need a gun. They are even making bombs out of drain cleaners now.