I DO NOT watch the news because I simply cannot handle it. Typically if things come across facebook, I don’t look at it. Why? I would be a total basket case riddled with anger if I did. Especially, after events such as today. There have been many school shootings as we all know over the past few years, in our country. Today’s was about 30 minutes from my house. I have elementary school age children, and the thought of someone walking into their school (b/c they very easily could) and terrorizing them the way that this COWARD of a human (if you can even call them a human) did today, makes me beyond irate. Why are our schools not safe? Why is is that you don’t have to walk THROUGH the front office to get into the building. Why are children roaming around unsupervised? Why do you have to walk OUT the FRONT doors to get to the playground?? Seriously?? Whoever is designing these buildings must not have kids, b/c they sure as hell aren’t safe. Just the other day after leaving lunch with my kids, walking out the front door, a little girl blew right past us. I looked at her and said “oh, honey, where are you going?” She said to play with my friends. She proceeded to run to the playground and join the group seemingly without notice. I am in NO way bashing teachers or saying anything negative at all here toward them. I volunteer at the school, and have the utmost adoration for our teachers. I have NO idea how they do what they do. I for one though do not understand how it is that the school systems have gotten so out of wack?? I get that we don’t want to imprison our kids, and our AMAZING teachers do all they can (most of them I would suspect anyway), but when you are set up for failure, and a situation as this occurs, what do you expect?? I’ll never forget walking into my kids school and looking at my ex-husband, saying we could totally walk out of here with a child, or someone ours. So what do we do? How do we make a change?? Anyone have any idea? I don’t want to complain about it, I want to find a resolution. This MADNESS has got to stop. I know we can’t completely stop evil from happening, and that there will always be something going on somewhere in the world, but for the love of God our children need to be safe. Our teachers who devote their lives to our children, and ultimately all of our futures, need to be safe. There should be more than just a knee jerk reaction of tightening security at the schools for a few weeks, AFTER something happens. Just this morning I drove by our police officer who sits, on campus, and she’s not paying attention at all. The same thing could have happened this morning at our school, with her sitting right there. I get it’s got to be boring to sit there, but again, there has to be a better way. Someone help me find it! What can we do? How can we fix this?? For real, because it has got to stop!
