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A school shooting in Woodway, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers, tightened security across schools across the country, and teachers figured out how to prevent future gun violence.
James. E. Fury, a teacher at a public school in Wisconsin, suggests that the key to peace is to improve the environment.
“My thoughts on school shootings in general are that people don’t do these things when they feel like they belong, so creating an environment where everyone feels is likely to lead to fewer shootings,” Fury told Fox. Digital News.
Fury also called for better tracking when it comes to people who often find themselves in the hands of law enforcement, only to be released and commit more crimes.
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“It has also become apparent that many of these shooters have been involved by law enforcement before,” he said. “There is a failure between this contact and its subsequent completion with what to do with a person who is often in trouble or threatening others or acting in a disturbing way. We don’t seem to have good answers in this country on how to deal with mental health problems, and the “visibility” of this mental illness has done nothing to delay its onset. “
High school teacher Daniel Buck also told Fox News Digital that “what unites all these mass shooters is their identity as loners.”
“Their policies and excuses for self-esteem are everywhere,” Buck said. “But each of them has no social ties, no participation in school programs, no church attendance or any other institutional involvement. This is a cultural cause that finds expression through tragic acts of gun violence.”
The solutions, he said, are “unfortunately long-term”.
“Re-emphasizing family, church, social connections and distance from social media,” Buck suggested. “These trends have been going on for decades and it will take decades for them to reverse.”
Short-term mitigation measures, he said, should focus on enhanced security measures and security costs in schools.
Christopher Marashiello, who has taught history in high school and high school for almost three decades, said his buildings were generally “quite safe”.
“We have a full-time school employee who is from the community and knows most of our children,” he told Fox News Digital.
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“There are a lot of politicians in this country today, mostly from my party, who have a lot to answer for,” he said. “Texas, on the one hand, is just a child on the poster for gun rights out of control. I’m a historian, so I can tell you that gun violence in America is nothing new. The problem is the internet, social media, violent video games and the 24-hour news cycle plus all the regular pressure and undiagnosed mental illness, it’s a huge problem. “
Paige Gunzler, a teacher in Montana, called on parents to be more involved in their children’s lives.
“What happened in Texas today was horrible,” she wrote on Facebook. “As a society, we can start blaming politics or supporting certain laws or the lack of them. We can start pointing the finger and say that one side is to blame or the other. It seems that social media allows people to be quite screen wars when popularizing their opinions … But here is the overt problem of society that I see as an educator … Start raising your own children and stop relying of schools, kindergartens and the rest of society to do it for you “
A post on Facebook by Montana teacher Paige Gunzler, who called on parents to participate in their children’s lives.
Rebecca Friedrichs, who has been a public school teacher for 28 years and is the founder of For Kids and Country, told Fox News Digital that she believes schools should teach values and morals.
“We can’t make enough laws to stop this school shooting problem, instead we need to rebirth the value of human life that we had before in this country,” she said. “And beyond human life… in American schools we taught morality.”
Friedrichs blamed teachers’ unions for the change in schools, saying they were pursuing a “divisive” curriculum.
“They removed the moral compass,” she said. “Thanks to teachers’ unions and their policies … you can’t really discipline children who are out of control now.”
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Friedrichs said it was “tragic” that the solution could be to increase school staff and police presence on campus.
“Of course, someone must be able to protect these innocent victims,” she said. “Some force on campus that we hope will scare someone who will come and shoot innocent people.”
The Teachers’ Union in Chicago encourages violence to be seen as a “public health crisis” and treated as an “epidemic” of income inequality and hardship.
“Our children need committed adults who will finally address the root causes of violence in this nation, recognize violence as a public health crisis, oppose racism as contributing to violence and treat violence in the context of an epidemic of income inequality. and chronic economic hardships that have been ignored in many communities for decades, “the union said in a statement. “We must do this as we continue the painful and vital national reliance on racial inequality and white supremacy in the face of a well-funded right-wing extremist movement.
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Schools across the country have announced new safety protocols following the Texas shooting, including a backpack ban, increased police presence and “wandering measures”.
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