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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are shooter drills going about the best course of action? Were those children huddled up in a bathroom? My kids say every drill includes kids being loud while other kids loudly tell the loud kids to be quiet. Why not have a plan for some kids to run to a nearby house or yard if they are close enough?

I’m curious if we’ll learn more information about this from this horrific event. Did the school have active shooter drills (or intruder drills as they call it in my DCPS kindergartner’s class)? Was it effective?

It’s so hard to think about, but what I read about those who were identified was a 4th grade teacher and 4th graders. Perhaps he entered one classroom, and there was no warning or time to prepare there, but the carnage was not worse because the alarm was sounded and other classrooms were prepared? Or perhaps it made no difference at all.

I remember reading after one of the recent HS shootings that the kids locked the door and hid and heard the gunman outside try to open the locked door and move on.

[Anonymous]

I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

Let’s hear about what you spend your money on, so we can tell you how to spend it differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

Thank you. DCUM is quickest to label someone a "troll" when the truth hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High great school ratings help avoid this

Oh please.

All school shootings happened at schools with low great school ratings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High great school ratings help avoid this

Oh please.

All school shootings happened at schools with low great school ratings

Clearly you're not a statistician.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

Thank you. DCUM is quickest to label someone a "troll" when the truth hurts.

Of all the common DCUM idiocies, the resentful middle school “hey! The truth hurts!” from trolls who are angry that they were so quickly identified as such has to be one of the most tiresome.

[Anonymous]

I have three kids, and I don't even entertain the thought of it.

Anyway, people get shot in supermarket (Buffalo), work place, subway (NY), and school.

What 9/11 taught us is we cannot live in fear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

Thank you. DCUM is quickest to label someone a "troll" when the truth hurts.

Of all the common DCUM idiocies, the resentful middle school “hey! The truth hurts!” from trolls who are angry that they were so quickly identified as such has to be one of the most tiresome.

Thanks for sharing your views, Karen. You can go back to clutching your pearls now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

Thank you. DCUM is quickest to label someone a "troll" when the truth hurts.

OP here. None of the schools we looked at are 30k. If some random stranger thinks I am selfish, who cares. I care about my kids. Until the gun laws change, I will be selfish. This mess was created because of the selfish people who can't give up their stupid guns.

[Anonymous]

I don't blame you OP.

I'll be so happy when they are out of school, and I no longer have to worry about school shootings.

I would not switch them to private just for this reason alone, though.

--Parent of public school students - HS and MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't blame you OP.

I'll be so happy when they are out of school, and I no longer have to worry about school shootings.

I would not switch them to private just for this reason alone, though.

--Parent of public school students - HS and MS.

I honestly don't get this. I mean, your kids could be at a movie theater or a concert. Literally anywhere in public. It's devastating.

I assume you're sending your kids to college? And you won't worry about what happened at VA tech?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't blame you OP.

I'll be so happy when they are out of school, and I no longer have to worry about school shootings.

I would not switch them to private just for this reason alone, though.

--Parent of public school students - HS and MS.

I honestly don't get this. I mean, your kids could be at a movie theater or a concert. Literally anywhere in public. It's devastating.

I assume you're sending your kids to college? And you won't worry about what happened at VA tech?

1. college aged kids are adults, but of course I worry in general about my kids.
2. there are more mass public school shootings than mass college shootings. VA tech shooter walked around and shot at random people.

Random shootings happen everywhere, but school children are sitting ducks. There is no place where there are so many young children gathered within a building than a public school.

[Anonymous]

While I understand your desire to keep your child safe, OP (me too) I think we need to question our instincts to protect our kids by simply retreating behind more expensive walls.

I get it. I had the thought this morning that maybe we should move somewhere else where gun violence is less prevalent. But of course, suburban schools in wealthier areas aren’t safe from this kind of violence either. No school in the US is truly safe from this violence.

Also, while my child’s school has never experienced a mass shooting, many of the children there have been touched in some way by gun violence, domestic violence, poverty. It’s easy to say I want to get my kid away from that, but I know these kids. They aren’t a threat. And I don’t want our family to abandon them.

We are in this together no matter what. Private school, rich suburbs, etc. are like using your money to buy bullet proof vests for your kids. Does that really solve the problem? Or just shift the risk into others. And nothing will protect your kid from the mental health impacts of living in a world like this.

We have to fix this together. There is nowhere to hide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to agree with the other PP here who everyone hates.

There is an astonishing amount of privilege on display here. The chance of this happening to your kid is miniscule. Your money and privilege is already keeping your child safe in so many ways, yet you would spent 30K a year on a private school just because your gut says so.

If you actually cared about saving children's live, you could go spend that 30,000 yearly at a charity that would measurably help children in a developing country.

Thank you. DCUM is quickest to label someone a "troll" when the truth hurts.

OP here. None of the schools we looked at are 30k. If some random stranger thinks I am selfish, who cares. I care about my kids. Until the gun laws change, I will be selfish. This mess was created because of the selfish people who can't give up their stupid guns.

Then why are you posting here? Just do it.