The world is a different place than it was prior to the shootings in Montreal, Columbine and any number of other places. How much do you pay attention to violent issues in the media? How safe do you feel in school? What suggestions do you have for finding our way (as a society) to a more peaceful state? Do you have any thoughts, comments, opinions, or suggestions about how the situation at Stamford on Oct. 14, 2009 was handled?"
Lockdowns are by far one of the scariest drill that we have in school. Yes that is a little dumb sounding, but honestly they are. In elementary school I had no clue what a "lockdown" even was. Nevermind was I scared of having a gun or bomb in my school. As a child my school was a safe place, and somewhere I trusted. But once you enter highschool the sheltered"ness" that you have in elementary is ripped away and your left face to face with reality.
Since I entered highschool about 3 years ago, I've been exposed to 2 real crazy events and a couple of drills. The first time something on around a lockdown level happened I was in grade 9. There was a note found in a desk about a "potential shooting" this is when my fairy tell sheltered from reality came crumbling to my feet. I didn't believe any of it I though it was just nonsense... until I heard teachers talk about it. And now 3 years later in grade 12 another one of these insane events takes place.
It is so crazy how much different schools are now than they were before Columbine. Even thinking about this now kind of gives me a weird feeling. It also makes me wonder, what was life like when you didn't have to worry about ever having someone shoot in a school. Or plant a bomb in, well anywhere actually. As a student hearing about these crazy events I really can't even describe it. I have no idea what I would of done if I was in the school when all this happened, and I don't even want to try to understand what was going through the shooters mind.
Schools are not as safe as they used to be. Students do not feel the need to comply with rules or really with adults. There is no respect for our teachers, and I think that is why students often times don't care about each other. When students don't care about the simple things it really makes you wonder. We live in a society where often times things are just handed to us, and we have such easy access to the tools we need commit just about any acts, and thats SCARY.
Before Columbine we all felt a little safer, but that doesn't mean that this wasn't going on before. Columbine was the first time that this had happened on a large scale so therefore it was publicized and WA-LA we have people living in fear all of the time. Of course there are always going to be terrorists, and crazy people. There is no way we can stop this, we physically can not scan each persons brain to figure out what they are going to do as they age. So allow it may be scary, that is what the drills are for. Lockdowns allow us to prepare for the potential of one of these acts.
I feel that for a potentially scary situation, teachers and adminstrations are trying to protect us as students to the best of their ability. And personally I think that they deserve our respect for it.
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