School Shooting’s

Marysville WA…

He Seemed like a nor­mal Kid, that is what we hear over and over again and until per­haps and alleged­ly a man­age­able sit­u­a­tion was not han­dled cor­rect­ly he may have had the chance to stay a nor­mal kid.

Here is a head­line, (alleged­ly and per­haps obvi­ous­ly) the press con­tin­ues to use these as a means to push an agen­da.

So why do the media focus on their agen­da when focus­ing on stop­ping this vio­lence would be so much bet­ter?

When you read what the Media talks about you have to won­der just whose side they are actu­al­ly on…

Since Columbine we are remind­ed that ter­ri­ble things have and con­tin­ue to hap­pen regard­less of how many pro­grams are put into effect.

We are not doing enough…

There have been reduc­tions in the num­bers of fatal­i­ties but that is not enough.

This most recent prob­lem where a pop­u­lar stu­dent took the lives of his fel­low stu­dents and for­ev­er cre­at­ed a scar on hun­dreds of oth­er stu­dents.

We react quick­ly once the dam­age has been done.

Why can’t we spot these prob­lems before they hap­pen?

While we may not have all the details yet and some details we may nev­er receive we can look at sev­er­al things that may have played a part in this sit­u­a­tion going from man­age­able to unman­age­able.

We have reports that he was suspended…

Could that have made a difference…

What IF that suspension were handled better…

It is entire­ly pos­si­ble that had the sus­pen­sion been han­dled in a dif­fer­ent way, (We know for a fact that young adults view exclu­sion from sports as a big event, per­haps even the feel­ing that the world as this child knows it is about to end)

That is a big prob­lem, this zero tol­er­ance sit­u­a­tion where we just stern­ly sus­pend and (like­ly threat­en) a stu­dent instead of man­ag­ing it dif­fer­ent­ly…

It is easy to sec­ond guess after the fact, how­ev­er we know that IF only they had man­aged it in a dif­fer­ent way,

“Say your not off the team and your not going to be sus­pend­ed but we do want you to see a coun­selor, so you can deal with this anger”

(Then you get a pro­fes­sion­al involved, eval­u­ate the risk and then you move in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion, stop with the ways of the past, because they do not work and we know it)

If you don’t know, what were doing is not work­ing you need to look at the sit­u­a­tion from a dif­fer­ent angle.

There is always more than one way to man­age a prob­lem and so far the one thing that is entire­ly clear is that this sit­u­a­tion was not han­dled cor­rect­ly,  Not at all cor­rect­ly.

These are kids and were not pay­ing atten­tion, in many ways this is entire­ly the fault of the school sys­tem and those that run it.

(Sure there is enough blame to go around, from the gun issue to par­ent­ing,) but this start­ed at school, he got into (alleged­ly a fight) at school, he was sus­pend­ed at school…

We sim­ply have to stop try­ing to push an agen­da that the media pre­fer to push and start focus­ing on the kids.

Any­thing less is crim­i­nal and the media are right in the mid­dle of this sit­u­a­tion as they always are, next will come the calls for gun con­trol.

Gun Con­trol is not the answer the real answer is man­ag­ing these chil­dren and iden­ti­fy­ing risk…

That is the real news sto­ry and one that you will not see on the news tonight…