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  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.
context: 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. >
  
  
  "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. >
  
  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. >
  
  I have a daughter who is about to turn 5 and she has an aggressive cousin who is about a year younger than her; it makes her “nervous” to be around him and ”worried” he is going to be “mean” to her and Mema and Papa (her words, not mine).  
  Young children can have emotional intelligence, especially enough to understand that it is not okay to hurt someone else.
  
  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.
  
  Yes, that is very disturbing. >
  
  Your parents suck. So did his. >
  
  They reacted as if it were some plaything or antique. Which it was. But muskets are also antiques, and in 2023 you can shoot someone dead with one just as you could in 1770 >
  
  It is an antique maybe, but let me tell you that getting hit with a fucking sword will still hurt and maybe even cut, even if it's dull. You might let 1 thing slide, but when there's multiple red flags going on, you should avoid that person at all cost. Her parents suck for letting all of that happen on their roof. >
  
  That's what I'm saying- they dismissed it because they didn't recognize it as something still actually dangerous... They're totally dumb. Also missed the detail these kids were messing around on the roof, of all places! 😜 >
  
  How does a six year old have access to, the ability to conceal and bring to school, and the knowledge to use a handgun?! What the fuck is going on out there?? >
  
  Parents keeping loaded weapons in easily accessible locations. >
  
  Parents should be charged as accessory to attempted murder. >
  
  Parents very likely will be charged with something. It’s very difficult to charge a child under the age of 10 with a crime. >
  
  And charging a six year old is utterly pointless. They can put the kid in some secured facility or group home without relying on criminal charges. >
  
  
  
  This was not an accidental shooting
  
  
  Fuck us all >
  
  No, no, we're going to be OK:
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  "It's a dark day for Newport News," Jones said. "We're going to learn from this, and we're going to come back stronger."
  
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  !Just kidding.  We're not going to learn a thing from this.!< >
  
  Come on man. The lesson is clear. If that teacher was armed, she would’ve shot the evil 6 year old and defended herself. If a good 6 year old next to the evil 6 year had a shotgun he would’ve killed the evil 6 year old before the teacher was shot. You need to arm the good guys and then delete all doors except for one.
  Come on. How hard is that to understand?
  Goddamn liburls. >
  
  Obviously we need to fund mental health care for checks notes toddlers and kindergarteners and first graders. >
  
  I’m not even sure how much capacity for consequences a six year old has. They are very dumb. Respectfully. I could totally see a six year old doing this and then only
  Realizing what happened after the gun goes off. >
  
  I have a 6 year old.  She knows something like that would be very, very bad.  However, she doesnt know what the fallout would be or what would happen to that persons family, etc. >
  
  Beyond knowing (I have a 5yo kid) you cannot compete with incompetent parents that enable a 6yo to find, load and bring to school a gun with some intent. It all starts with the parent on top of everything that could go wrong here. >
  
  I imagine the gun was kept loaded. >
  
  From what I’ve seen people say, the gun was in a crack house belonging to the kid’s uncle who traded drugs for guns, so yeah, kid was spending time in a crack house aged 6, parents should be charged for causing the kid to develop this way through neglect. >
  
  Everyone included should be charged. The uncle, owner of the gun, the parents for leaving him there. If people don't want to control access to guns, then we need to start harshly punishing people whose guns are used in the commission of a crime, especially when a child is involved. >
  
  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.