I'm seriously considering taking my kids out of public school

[Anonymous]

My daughter loves public kinder. I was anxious about sandy hook even before she started K, and now this. I would feel better knowing she's at a smaller school with less chance of getting shot. People like to say privates aren't any safer, but if you look at the statistics, they are.

[Anonymous]

Do you drive to school? Or spend any time on a road whatsoever?
Way riskier.

I'm sorry you're feeling anxious, op. Maybe getting active might help. For both gun safety and road safety, parents need to mobilize and push for change

[Anonymous]

Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you drive to school? Or spend any time on a road whatsoever?
Way riskier.

I'm sorry you're feeling anxious, op. Maybe getting active might help. For both gun safety and road safety, parents need to mobilize and push for change

Actually, for children and teenagers, guns are a much more common cause of death than cars. Mainly because they don't drive themselves anywhere. But still.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Oh STFU. We need to protect our kids.

OP, I’m grateful we can send our daughter to a private school. I know they’re not guaranteed to be safe, but for multiple reasons, it’s less likely there will be a shooting at one of them.

[Anonymous]

You have to keep living your life. There will always be another tragedy, illness, war to worry about.

I'm heartbroken for what happened too.

[Anonymous]

There is no world in which these types of shootings aren't horrific. And I don't want to minimize the agony of the families involved by invoking math... but this isn't a real risk factor for your children.

I understand that you want to feel like you have some control over this. Like, that if you just have your kids in the right school you could avoid this. And maybe there are margins where private schools are "safer", but you're talking about trying to avoid a lightning strike here.

Short of keeping our children in our homes full time, there's just always a chance of tragedy striking from a multitude of sources. It's one of the hardest things about being a parent.

[Anonymous]

Please also donate to gun control organizations, OP!

Banning most guns is the only way to reduce mass shooting incidents, as well as the majority of firearm homicides, which occur as accidents in the home or suicides. The data is incontrovertible on this. Every other wealthy nation has banned guns and as a result, do not have nearly the number of firearm homicides per capita that the US does.

[Anonymous]

I am pretty sure that a Private School in DC just had to deal with a sniper, about a month or so ago.

And, statistically speaking here, public schools don't deal with these types of events all that frequently either. They are rare events. rare, awful, soul devastating events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no world in which these types of shootings aren't horrific. And I don't want to minimize the agony of the families involved by invoking math... but this isn't a real risk factor for your children.

I understand that you want to feel like you have some control over this. Like, that if you just have your kids in the right school you could avoid this. And maybe there are margins where private schools are "safer", but you're talking about trying to avoid a lightning strike here.

Short of keeping our children in our homes full time, there's just always a chance of tragedy striking from a multitude of sources. It's one of the hardest things about being a parent.

I hugged my 5yo today before her father took her to school. She said, “see you this afternoon, mommy!” I know there’s a tiny, tiny risk of anything happening to her, but we should not live in a world where it could happen at all. And the reality is that, in virtually every developed country, a mass shooting at a school is simply not something that happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Oh STFU. We need to protect our kids.

OP, I’m grateful we can send our daughter to a private school. I know they’re not guaranteed to be safe, but for multiple reasons, it’s less likely there will be a shooting at one of them.

No, you STFU. There are 100,000 public schools in this country, and 27,000 private schools. School shootings are rare events at public schools, and even more rare events at private schools, simply because there are more public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

WTH are you even talking about?

[Anonymous]

My kid goes to private school but I’m under no illusion that it’s safer. That school in Texas had an armed security guard. While my child’s school has security, the person isn’t armed.