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Learning Scared
Issue date: 10/5/06 Section: Opinion
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Last week, an armed 15-year-old at a Wisconsin school killed the principal, and in Colorado, a drifter took six female high school students hostage, molested them, fatally shot one and killed himself.
School shootings have prompted changes to school safety rules, sparked debate over the availability of guns and promoted a string of academic studies on the causes of stress, depression and violence in young people, according to CNN.
We have to wonder what the future of our school systems will be like if these horrible events continue to occur.
As students, we can not help but question our safety when in the classroom. When we were children, the most our parents worried about were possible bullies or the occasional playground fight.
While two recent shootings involved outsiders coming into schools, recent studies focused on student-on-student violence after two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in April 1999.
Our society has vastly changed when you have to worry if your fellow classmate will decide to bring their family gun to class and release all their inner aggression.
In the future, who is to say if a typical child's supply list will include some form of protection, be it a bulletproof vest or some other safety device.
Clear backpacks and metal detectors are some strategies that have been implemented throughout the United States in an attempt to detour school shootings.
This is a growing problem we all hoped would not occur again after Columbine, but years later, we witnessed the slaying of innocent young people in what is typically a safe learning environment.
Help fight against the problem by reporting any behavior that may seem abnormal to the on-campus counselors or your professors.
School is already a stressful environment. Let's help to prevent any additional stress for safety.
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