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[quote=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.[/quote]

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