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  Children that age don't understand the implications of their actions. A child that age would launch nukes because they didn't get ice cream if the button was in front of them. And no doubt this is a very troubled child. What is absolutely insane is that this child was able to procure a gun and get it to school and evidently had learned from someone how to fire it.
context: My wife works in district! She has friends who work at the school. They said the woman shot went to admin multiple times to voice her concerns with the child who was acting strange. Then, the student shot her. Admin is a joke. >
  
  Not surprising at all and why so many of us are leaving this profession. I've been in the same situation, as have every single one of my elementary school peers. I've worked in an affluent school for over a decade and it now worries me more than when I started out and taught in the projects. 
  Thank you for speaking up! Only teachers, their family, and closest friends understand how terribly bad it's gotten. Everyone else is still in denial or shock. >
  
  My sister is now a teacher in a super-affluent high school and has said the same thing; the atmosphere and the events that are happening to/from the students are way more intense than any urban or rural farmland school she’s worked at. The admin is so afraid of the parents, the kids are effectively allowed to do whatever they want, whenever they want. >
  
  This is what the “parents rights” movment has done to us >
  
  Yep and any attempt by a teacher/admin to control the situation is “big government indoctrination” it’s so fucking stupid. >
  
  And the ones who scream about schools "indoctrinating" kids haven't set foot inside a school or taken an active interest in their kid's education in years. >
  
  How dare you indoctrinate my kid who I’m trying to indoctrinate >
  
  When i was six i peed my pants on the carpet during story time because i didn’t want to miss the story. >
  
  Right?   I loved my teachers… it was fun to go to school and have story time and popcorn on Fridays!   Oh and when the local firefighters came and we got to outside to see the fire trucks!     What have we become. >
  
  "Kindergartner shoots fireman for not letting him turn on the hose." >
  
  "6 year old wanted to use the hose, instead busts a cap in them hoes" >
  
  Mrs Miller read stories from the bible. Odd because we were a public school.  She refused to read the story about Samson because apparently he wasted his life and was gay.
  I was 6.  This was 1981 in Toronto. >
  
  Circle-Square! >
  
  
  we are going to learn from this
  
  Hey I doubt it! >
  
  
  "This was not an accidental shooting," Police Chief Steve Drew told reporters during an evening press conference.
  
  Seriously?  A 6-year-old planned an attack on a teacher?  
  I have no words.