Lainer Student

Week #7 Article #2

 

1.    Claudia Grisales (2013, October 15) Lanier student was sitting alone before shooting, students say. Austin American Statesman

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/official-police-investigate-report-of-attempted-su/nbPD9/

2.    Category of problem: High school kills himself on campus

3.    Level of problem: Local

4.    This article concerns: A problem/issue that individuals/families face

5.    Importance/affect on families/individuals: The importance of this article is to make sure every student still feels safe at school.

6.    My input: When I heard this new, I could not believe what I was hearing. I don’t understand how a student got a gun on campus but then again there was nothing stopping him from being a gun on campus, there are no metal detectors at, which is my opinion no high schools should have metal detectors. I feel that if a school has metal detectors even know that the school might feel it is for the safety of the students, it might make the students feel unsafe even know nothing gun related has ever happened at the school. I would never allow my child go to a school with metal detectors because I feel that metal detectors give schools a bad vibe and tells the students that there is something they should have to worry about. As this story develops we learn that the student took his own life during lunch on the campus and just hours before he posted about what he was planning on doing on his face book but nobody believed him. It makes me wonder if just one person would have believed him would he be here today. What I wonder the most is why did he take his own life and why do it at school. I think it was very important for the school to have counseling on school for any students who needed it because as a parent how do you prepare your child for something like this. As a parent you never want to think that your child would have to deal with something like this in their live.