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THIS IS NOT EDUCATION!!!


#JustThinkingOutLoud with this one…


This massacre is heart-wrenching, unthinkable, heart-stopping and all too-close to home… My daughter’s high school was on a full lockdown just yesterday for a gun on campus!!! 


Last summer I had to pull my son out of summer school (he’s special needs and it was his first time back after two years of COVID and he absolutely needed the extra schooling)… but I couldn’t send him back after a fifth grader brought the firearm… and my sons teacher/class had to take in the class of the student who brought the gun because the fifth grade teacher had to do police briefings and reports for the rest of the day.


Last Friday my daughter told me of a shooting that took place after a highschool graduation at a school where she trains and runs track. Shooting at Highschool on May 19, 2022. It’s worth nothing that, although we may not hear about school  shootings everyday, they’re occurring frequently. Think about it! Were you aware of the shooting in Michigan, in which people were shot AND injured,  just four days prior to the Texas massacre? Probably not! How many more instance are happening that just don’t make national news, which causes us to assume that things are a-ok regularly?!


Back in the day we only had to worry about fire drills and tornado drills; not active shooter trainings, heavy police presence at the schools and metal detectors at checkpoints. 


A few months ago at my daughter’s school, they had a full lockdown for hours and I didn’t know why she was texting me and the entire family about how much she loved us until she got home and told me that she (and all the students in her class) thought they were going to die. 


I told her she can’t EVER do that again, all because she didn’t want me to know the extent of danger she was in and worry about her! This definitely all makes a good case for home schooling!!! 


I didn’t even know about the shooting until a friend called to check on me and informed me… I’d just got my son off his school bus about 20 minutes prior. I’m so grateful that I am able to hug my children another night, feed them, instruct them to bathe and get ready for bed once again and to wake them up in the morning, Lord’s will, but so many others were not able to do so this evening and won’t get the chance to ever wake up with their little ones again. 




What are we supposed to do as parents? Sure, I can keep my son home as he’s a first grader and it wouldn’t be too much of an impact, but my daughter has finals all next week. I already pulled them from school for an entire month during Christmas break and into early 2022 when COVID numbers spiked and their school district refused to close after my daughter’s classmate died of COVID-19, all while other districts throughout the country were physically closing and switching to virtual learning as a precaution.


But seriously, how do parents make the tough decision to send our children back into these potential death zones known as schools? THIS IS NOT EDUCATION!!! Almost two dozen families are mourning the loss of their children and loved ones 😭. Why? How? How can this be the reality we live in???


God bless these families and this community 💔…

 


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