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When there is a school shooting, you should count everyone in the school as deeply affected. Maybe the district. From wikipedia it looks like there's 13,000 sc
by furyofantares 1y ago
When there is a school shooting, you should count everyone in the school as deeply affected. Maybe the district.
From wikipedia it looks like there's 13,000 school districts in the US - so 1 in 10 (!!!!) has had a school shooting in the last 22 years. Am I doing this right?
- saguntum 1y agoYou are assuming that each school shooting is in a separate district in the calculation. That is not necessarily the case, especially with some large school district serving many more students than a small rural district. But I agree with you that it affects the school and community deeply, even in surrounding communities. I live in Texas, and the whole state was deeply affected after Uvalde. A relative's school got evacuated a few weeks later out of what happened to be a false alarm, with the relative forced to exit the school hands above their head to show they didn't have a gun. They were on the complete other side of the state, probably like a 6 hour drive away.
- vidarh 1y agoI'd say far worse. So much US discourse is about school shootings, that it's clear it's affecting people far outside the school districts themselves. It's affectional national politics.