school shooting Archive
Scot R. Peterson, the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., became a pariah for never venturing into the building where a former student shot and killed 17 people and injured 15 others in February. …
I never had active shooter drills in schools. We had one nuclear bomb once that seemed silly, as hallways and desks were known even then for being a poor substitute to any actual threat. Now children go through so many …
Redundant to say the least, reading headline after headline of schools, churches and other public places being overtaken by yet another mass shooting is becoming too commonplace in the United States today. Most recently, there was a shooting in downtown …
On Aug. 29, 2013, as school began last week for CPS students, there was a shooting a block from Bass Elementary School on Chicago’s south side in Englewood. According to reports, “Students were on the playground when the shooting occurred …
In what is becoming all too familiar, another gun was fired in an American school. This time it was an AK47 in Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Gerogia. According to USA Today, the suspect is a white male in …
In our MSW macro class, Professor Hymowitz was always clear about the first steps in starting a new organization; what is you mission and what is your vision? These are the sort of critical questions that have a bearing on …
By Matthew Cohen SJS Staff Writer Details have emerged from the unthinkable tragedy in Newtown. There have been reports that Adam Lanza’s guns were taken from his mother. It has also been reported that Ms. Lanza began to buy guns following a …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, SJS I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother, by Liza Long is a heart-wrenching first person account that is both scary and true. I urge everyone to read the piece (accessed through this link). This …
By Matthew Cohen SJS Staff Writer I sit here trying to think of something poignant to say, but my heart is broken. I could never imagine that something like this could happen, its impossible to take in. Two things will come …
