Summery: The University of Chicago heard news online that someone was planning a school shooting Monday morning. The school alerted the students and took precautions. The reactions of the alert are going different ways. Some students and faculty are genuinely scared, and others think its silly and a waste of time. A criminal investigation is now taking place.
Analysis: This is a modern phenomenon that schools are pretty recently having to deal with. The first school shooting is probably Columbine, and if it's not, then it is definitely the one that brought awareness to the school shooting issue. This took place in the 90's! That's not that long ago. Again, this is a fairly new problem. Because it is a new problem, people are still going through trial and error on how to deal with it. Is it the most efficient thing to do, is to just shut down the entire school over a threat? What we need to do is figure out how to solve the issue of spontaneous school shootings, because were not gonna get a warning every time.
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I think with how common threats of school shootings and school shootings are that it's completely stupid, as a student or anyone, to not take this seriously. I'm glad that the University acted quickly and responsibly in response to the threat. I hope they find the culprit before any lives are lost.
ReplyDeleteShelby Linker, 8th period