School shooting in Florida

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Well of course they do. Attendance is how schools get paid. Kids don’t show up for class they lose money.

I agree, but my daughter’s principal is taking a harder line than most other schools in the county who simply noted that the kids were absent from class.

The other kind of dick move he did was to instruct the coaches to pull kids from games this week if they were “absent” from class yesterday. This too is technically “by the book” since if you have an unexcused absence you’re not supposed to be eligible to play in the next game… but the majority of these absences were not “unexcused” and most parents called the school to give their permission.

But the above comments are correct – civil disobedience should come with a cost, and I’m proud that the majority of the kids at the school chose to pay it. My daughter reported that their event was pretty well-done. They had speakers lined up and during the “moment of silence” it was utterly quiet. She had been worried that some of the class clowns would be using the time to goof-off, but that didn’t seem to be the case.

The NRA had a counter protest at my wife’s school during the walkout because of course they did. They had a rep there and a small group of kids shouted stuff like USA! and Trump! while their classmates protested dead children.

My boys’ school had the same, small counter-protest. Because, you should root for more dead children, I guess?

What are they protesting? Everything goes the way the NRA wants it to go.

The Roof family seems to be pretty classy.

My kids said they were waving flags and yelling USA. Not really protesting as such, I suppose.

Protesting the obviously unAmerican kids that don’t want to be killed in a school shooting I think. I’m ready for the NRA to just die in a fire. All of it, just burn it down. One of the worst organizations around, in my opinion.

I believe (someone might prove me wrong) but schools can be held legally responsible for the welfare of students from almost the minute they leave their house in the morning until they return home in the afternoon. I am sure there are examples when they aren’t, but I have seen numerous lawsuits against them as well. Plus, as said above, allowing a walk out for one reason opens the school up for walk outs for any reason.

At the same time, targeting specific protests and marking them or treating them differently than if they had just left class and vanished for a bit on any other day can also get them in trouble.

It’s been said before but they should treat this as business as usual, and good job to the schools that had their teachers, who were not teaching, out there keeping an eye on things just to be safe.

Presumably, whatever strawman Fox news is putting forth. It might have little to do with actual events.

Overpaid NFL players that hate our troops.

We should arm teachers. Also hand gestures by 6-year-olds are literally terrorism.

Does it say whether or not it was a Muslim 6-year-old?

You KNOW that kid ain’t white.

Shiver also voiced a more troubling objection to the plan to arm teachers, namely that the plan could lead to police mistakenly shooting teachers if there were ever a school shooting.

Shiver said he’s had family members who were or currently are highway patrolmen. They have told him "When the highway patrolman bursts onto a site like that, they shoot the first one holding the gun out. They aren’t told that person is qualified (to carry a firearm). They don’t know."

I really hope this is not true. They’re not just supposed to shoot whomever they come across first who happens to have a gun.

I’m no specialist but I would imagine that judgment calls are tough when you are responding to an active shooting situation and the shooter could literally be anyone from students to teachers. Anyone with a gun becomes an immediate suspect and threat.