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

[Anonymous]

The delusion is strong in this thread. There are still private schools on the list of schools shootings. Quite a few. But people waste their money on all kinds of things - nothing new there.

[Anonymous]

Sorry OP. Yes, there are accidents, wars and disease and a million ways to die around the world, but somehow, school kids dying regularly of gun violence is a uniquely American gift.

America is sick and disgusting for not banning guns. Yes, take your kids out of school and home school them. Yes, stop taking your kids to church, to games, to restaurants, to movies, to concerts because this country is run by the GOP and NRA dogs.

However, please don't vote for the party that hates women and children. Please do not vote for GOP.

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Anonymous wrote:Our DDs are at an all-girls private. I feel it is safer than public school. It's a smaller community so people easily recognize who is out of place, and girls are a lot less likely than boys to be shooters. Our school also has license plate scanners so it alerts them when a car drives on campus that's not registered, and they do act upon it as I learned when I showed up in a rental car one day.

+1. Of course it’s safer than a public school. There’s some idiot troll on this thread today,

Not a troll. Just a parent who loves my children as much as you do and finds your smug snotty attitude repulsive. I’ll post as often as I like. Deal with it.

So what do you want us to do? Not feed our children because other children are hungry?

We truly can’t afford private school - not the DCUM “we can’t afford it because our mortgage for our big house is too high and airfares for our annual ski trip have gone up - but truly can’t afford it. If we could, I would send my kid to a safer private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The delusion is strong in this thread. There are still private schools on the list of schools shootings. Quite a few. But people waste their money on all kinds of things - nothing new there.

Paying for added security for your child’s life is about as far from a waste as I can imagine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The delusion is strong in this thread. There are still private schools on the list of schools shootings. Quite a few. But people waste their money on all kinds of things - nothing new there.

Paying for added security for your child’s life is about as far from a waste as I can imagine.

Even driving an extra couple of mile further to a private school likely elevates the risk that they face in a day. Granted the risk is elevated from infinitesimal to infinitesimal, but if you are worried about school shooting, then immeasurably small risks are something that you care about.

[Anonymous]

As scary as this is, I am far more worried about cancer, car accidents and drugs and mental health.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our DDs are at an all-girls private. I feel it is safer than public school. It's a smaller community so people easily recognize who is out of place, and girls are a lot less likely than boys to be shooters. Our school also has license plate scanners so it alerts them when a car drives on campus that's not registered, and they do act upon it as I learned when I showed up in a rental car one day.

+1. Of course it’s safer than a public school. There’s some idiot troll on this thread today,

Not a troll. Just a parent who loves my children as much as you do and finds your smug snotty attitude repulsive. I’ll post as often as I like. Deal with it.

So what do you want us to do? Not feed our children because other children are hungry?

We truly can’t afford private school - not the DCUM “we can’t afford it because our mortgage for our big house is too high and airfares for our annual ski trip have gone up - but truly can’t afford it. If we could, I would send my kid to a safer private school.

There are other people on DCUM who can't afford it, or annual ski trips, either. You don't have to insult every person on this site.

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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.

27 so far this year. Not rare. Not rare enough by a long shot.

[Anonymous]

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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.

27 so far this year. Not rare. Not rare enough by a long shot.

27 out of 100,000 school. How often do car accidents occur?

[Anonymous]

Guns overtake cars as the leading cause of death for children in the US: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/firearms-are-now-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-us-children/ar-AAXGZvU

Well, that's horrifying.

[Anonymous]

Just a couple of days before this last shooting DD said that there was talk in her (private) school and a couple of 7 grade boys threatened to bring guns to school, that they were suspended for a day and sent to counseling for a week.

The school didn't tell us anything.

I emailed the head of middle school and a got some very generic response, about the incident she said "they had a situation and addressed it." So I don't have a strong confidence that a private school would handle things better.

[Anonymous]

This is truly heartbreaking...

Anonymous wrote:Several schools on this non-exhaustive list are private:

Unbelievable….so sad…and so unnecessary! Another bullied kid. Two assault rifles purchased on his 18th birthday! Wearing protective gear! Shooting unarmed innocents. Will legislators finally enact gun control measures that will make such scenes not happen?

Thurston High School.
Columbine High School.
Heritage High School.
Deming Middle School.
Fort Gibson Middle School.
Buell Elementary School.
Lake Worth Middle School.
University of Arkansas.
Junipero Serra High School.
Santana High School.
Bishop Neumann High School.
Pacific Lutheran University.
Granite Hills High School.
Lew Wallace High School.
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.
Appalachian School of Law.
Washington High School.
Conception Abbey.
Benjamin Tasker Middle School.
University of Arizona.
Lincoln High School.
John McDonogh High School.
Red Lion Area Junior High School.
Case Western Reserve University.
Rocori High School.
Ballou High School.
Randallstown High School.
Bowen High School.
Red Lake Senior High School.
Harlan Community Academy High School.
Campbell County High School.
Milwee Middle School.
Roseburg High School.
Pine Middle School.
Essex Elementary School.
Duquesne University.
Platte Canyon High School.
Weston High School.
West Nickel Mines School.
Joplin Memorial Middle School.
Henry Foss High School.
Compton Centennial High School.
Virginia Tech.
Success Tech Academy.
Miami Carol City Senior High School.
Hamilton High School.
Louisiana Technical College.
Mitchell High School.
E.O. Green Junior High School.
Northern Illinois University.
Lakota Middle School.
Knoxville Central High School.
Willoughby South High School.
Henry Ford High School.
University of Central Arkansas.
Dillard High School.
Dunbar High School.
Hampton University.
Harvard College.
Larose-Cut Off Middle School.
International Studies Academy.
Skyline College.
Discovery Middle School.
University of Alabama.
DeKalb School.
Deer Creek Middle School.
Ohio State University.
Mumford High School.
University of Texas.
Kelly Elementary School.
Marinette High School.
Aurora Central High School.
Millard South High School.
Martinsville West Middle School.
Worthing High School.
Millard South High School.
Highlands Intermediate School.
Cape Fear High School.
Chardon High School.
Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
Oikos University.
Hamilton High School.
Perry Hall School.
Normal Community High School.
University of South Alabama.
Banner Academy South.
University of Southern California.
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Apostolic Revival Center Christian School.
Taft Union High School.
Osborn High School.
Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.
Hazard Community and Technical College.
Chicago State University.
Lone Star College-North.
Cesar Chavez High School.
Price Middle School.
University of Central Florida.
New River Community College.
Grambling State University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.
Ronald E. McNair Discovery Academy.
North Panola High School.
Carver High School.
Agape Christian Academy.
Sparks Middle School.
North Carolina A&T State University.
Stephenson High School.
Brashear High School.
West Orange High School.
Arapahoe High School.
Edison High School.
Liberty Technology Magnet High School.
Hillhouse High School.
Berrendo Middle School.
Purdue University.
South Carolina State University.
Los Angeles Valley College.
Charles F. Brush High School.
University of Southern California.
Georgia Regents University.
Academy of Knowledge Preschool.
Benjamin Banneker High School.
D. H. Conley High School.
East English Village Preparatory Academy.
Paine College.
Georgia Gwinnett College.
John F. Kennedy High School.
Seattle Pacific University.
Reynolds High School.
Indiana State University.
Albemarle High School.
Fern Creek Traditional High School.
Langston Hughes High School.
Marysville Pilchuck High School.
Florida State University.
Miami Carol City High School.
Rogers State University.
Rosemary Anderson High School.
Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
Frederick High School.
Tenaya Middle School.
Bethune-Cookman University.
Pershing Elementary School.
Wayne Community College.
J.B. Martin Middle School.
Southwestern Classical Academy.
Savannah State University.
Harrisburg High School.
Umpqua Community College.
Northern Arizona University.
Texas Southern University.
Tennessee State University.
Winston-Salem State University.
Mojave High School.
Lawrence Central High School.
Franklin High School.
Muskegon Heights High School.
Independence High School.
Madison High School.
Antigo High School.
University of California-Los Angeles.
Jeremiah Burke High School.
Alpine High School.
Townville Elementary School.
Vigor High School.
Linden McKinley STEM Academy.
June Jordan High School for Equity.
Union Middle School.
Mueller Park Junior High School.
West Liberty-Salem High School.
University of Washington.
King City High School.
North Park Elementary School.
North Lake College.
Freeman High School.
Mattoon High School.
Rancho Tehama Elementary School.
Aztec High School.
Wake Forest University.
Italy High School.
NET Charter High School.
Marshall County High School.
Sal Castro Middle School.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Great Mills High School
Central Michigan University
Huffman High School
Frederick Douglass High School
Forest High School
Highland High School
Dixon High School
Santa Fe High School
Noblesville West Middle School
University of North Carolina Charlotte
STEM School Highlands Ranch
Edgewood High School
Palm Beach Central High School
Providence Career & Technical Academy
Fairley High School (school bus)
Canyon Springs High School
Dennis Intermediate School
Florida International University
Central Elementary School
Cascade Middle School
Davidson High School
Prairie View A & M University
Altascocita High School
Central Academy of Excellence
Cleveland High School
Robert E. Lee High School
Cheyenne South High School
Grambling State University
Blountsville Elementary School
Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)
Prescott High School
College of the Mainland
Wynbrooke Elementary School
UNC Charlotte
Riverview Florida (school bus)
Second Chance High School
Carman-Ainsworth High School
Williwaw Elementary School
Monroe Clark Middle School
Central Catholic High School
Jeanette High School
Eastern Hills High School
DeAnza High School
Ridgway High School
Reginald F. Lewis High School
Saugus High School
Pleasantville High School
Waukesha South High School
Oshkosh High School
Catholic Academy of New Haven
Bellaire High School
North Crowley High School
McAuliffe Elementary School
South Oak Cliff High School
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Sonora High School
Western Illinois University
Oxford High School
Robb Elementary School

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27 so far this year. Not rare. Not rare enough by a long shot.

27 out of 100,000 school. How often do car accidents occur?

I guess the point is that while we feel accidents are just that -- accidents -- mass shootings are intentional and so potentially more avoidable. They require planning and getting guns, and they are often preceded by declarations (though maybe there are also many false declarations, I dunno).

At a minimum, securing guns to make it harder for people under the age of 21 to get their hands on them shouldn't be controversial. How to secure them I dunno. But I think I read this guy went out and bought the guns himself. I'm surprised that an 18-year-old can't legally buy a beer but can legally buy two guns ... And yes, yes, no solution is perfect, and no policy change will cover *all* possible cases and remove *all* risks, but that doesn't mean you should do *nothing*...

[Anonymous]

There was just a private school shooting in DC a couple of months ago. Being private doesn't protect you

[Anonymous]

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27 so far this year. Not rare. Not rare enough by a long shot.

27 out of 100,000 school. How often do car accidents occur?

I guess the point is that while we feel accidents are just that -- accidents -- mass shootings are intentional and so potentially more avoidable. They require planning and getting guns, and they are often preceded by declarations (though maybe there are also many false declarations, I dunno).

At a minimum, securing guns to make it harder for people under the age of 21 to get their hands on them shouldn't be controversial. How to secure them I dunno. But I think I read this guy went out and bought the guns himself. I'm surprised that an 18-year-old can't legally buy a beer but can legally buy two guns ... And yes, yes, no solution is perfect, and no policy change will cover *all* possible cases and remove *all* risks, but that doesn't mean you should do *nothing*...

Also, unfortunately, automobile deaths are now rarer than gun deaths for children: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/firearms-are-now-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-us-children/ar-AAXGZvU

I just wish it was harder for anyone to get access to guns -- why are things like background checks and age restrictions for accessing firearms so controversial? It shouldn't be easier to buy a gun than a beer.