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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.

We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.

We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.

Well that’s dumb. Lots of rich kids come from broken homes. Divorce is expensive and rich people can afford it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.

We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.

Tell me you are 80 without telling me you are 80.

[Anonymous]

Disprove the statement if you can. Insults prove nothing except that you can’t argue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.

We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.

Well, lots of kids shoot up schools that aren't their schools. All the big recent ones have been like that.

Anyway, the whole family values thing is a red herring. Other places have similar rates of divorce and single parenthood and they have way less gun violence. The reason is that they have way less guns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disprove the statement if you can. Insults prove nothing except that you can’t argue.

Dylan Klebold’s mother, Sue, wrote a memoir about her son and the Columbine shooting. From all accounts, they had a normal family - maybe like yours, maybe like mine. Teenagers spend more time on their own and with friends, and that’s what her son Dylan did as well. She had no idea that during this time he was plotting to kill his classmates. What a harrowing experience for a family - the guilt and shame, and also the heartbreak that your child is also dead. Not all shooters are the same. But most do feel a sense of isolation, and have been socially humiliated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.

We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.

Well that’s dumb. Lots of rich kids come from broken homes. Divorce is expensive and rich people can afford it.

I might be wrong but didn’t the columbine shooters come from two parent, wealthy, privileged homes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.

We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.

Well that’s dumb. Lots of rich kids come from broken homes. Divorce is expensive and rich people can afford it.

I might be wrong but didn’t the columbine shooters come from two parent, wealthy, privileged homes?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

And Adam Lanza’s family was rich, and together until the dad left with the older child due to the mom’s enabling of Adam.

[Anonymous]

Pp- I was right about the columbine murderers but looking at this apparently most school shooters do come from broken homes

https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/shooters_myth_stable_home_1.15.pdf

[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.

I blame the GOP for fighting so hard to provide easy access to assault rifles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Gun control organizations can be helpful to pass local/state laws, but they have no sway over the Supreme Court that will keep overturning them. The deck is stacked against sensible gun control for years to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

You should go for it. Our schools are really overcrowded and the more that leave for private the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Gun control organizations can be helpful to pass local/state laws, but they have no sway over the Supreme Court that will keep overturning them. The deck is stacked against sensible gun control for years to come.

Yes, the GOP stacked the court with far-right extremists who couldn't care less about the 2nd amendment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Gun control organizations can be helpful to pass local/state laws, but they have no sway over the Supreme Court that will keep overturning them. The deck is stacked against sensible gun control for years to come.

Yes, the GOP stacked the court with far-right extremists who couldn't care less about the 2nd amendment.

They do care about it, they care about expanding it, as they have recently done.