School Shootings

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Sad that we may need a category for this.

Another school shooting in NoCal.

Thinking of NoCalMimi and hoping she's okay.

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they teach us to write a time of application on it - but i remember being taught this back in the day. I remember when i was being taught about them that they were a sort of last resort -they'd even want us to write a big T on someone's head if we were on the field so let the care team know that there was a tourniquet (gasp!) so that it could be addressed right away. (i feel like i am really dating myself here!) But in this class that logic was reversed - the tourniquet should be one of the first things you grab. The amount of time it's on becomes less taboo. Heck, they even had us spend a considerable amount of time learning how to apply them to ourselves.

write a T on the forehead...that blew a lot of dust off some memory cells!!

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Don't tell, but I still have some.

me too - infact my muscle memory kicked in and i used one not very long ago with a syncopal student. it worked like a charm when deep sternal rub just wasn't quite doing it. The paramedic was not amused.

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me too - infact my muscle memory kicked in and i used one not very long ago with a syncopal student. it worked like a charm when deep sternal rub just wasn't quite doing it. The paramedic was not amused.

That makes it even better!!!

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No one was injured, but a teacher decided to bring in a gun and shoot in an empty room today

Dalton High School Teacher Fired Gun in Classroom: Police | Time

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No one was injured, but a teacher decided to bring in a gun and shoot in an empty room today

Dalton High School Teacher Fired Gun in Classroom: Police | Time

Ughhhh, obviously a messed up dude.

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No one was injured, but a teacher decided to bring in a gun and shoot in an empty room today

Dalton High School Teacher Fired Gun in Classroom: Police | Time

Ughhhh, obviously a messed up dude.

With a gun. Funny how this keeps happening.

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There was a shooting yesterday in Alabama where a girl died I believe. They are calling it accidental and being very hush hush it seems. I feel if you bring a loaded gun into an area where it isn't allowed, that takes the accidental out of it. So sad.

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One school in my area was closed on Monday due to a credible threat. A student in another district saw the threat on snap chat and showed his mom around 10pm, mom called the police, police notified the school, school was immediately cancelled for the next day, the student that made the threat and "all involved" were arrested at 2am!

My high school was made aware of a threat posted on snap chat by a student who was absent. The student was taken into custody and the school day continued on as usual.

I'm glad to see that these threats are being taken very seriously now! However, I wonder if the kids making these threats had any real intent to harm. Maybe it will prevent a shooting, but it also may just keep the kid who is an actual danger from posting to social media. There's no good answer here, but I do think that treating every single threat as a clear and present danger is necessary. Parents need to see that the school and the police are doing everything in their power to keep kids safe and students need to see that this type of non-sense will not be tolerated.

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One school in my area was closed on Monday due to a credible threat. A student in another district saw the threat on snap chat and showed his mom around 10pm, mom called the police, police notified the school, school was immediately cancelled for the next day, the student that made the threat and "all involved" were arrested at 2am!

My high school was made aware of a threat posted on snap chat by a student who was absent. The student was taken into custody and the school day continued on as usual.

I'm glad to see that these threats are being taken very seriously now! However, I wonder if the kids making these threats had any real intent to harm. Maybe it will prevent a shooting, but it also may just keep the kid who is an actual danger from posting to social media. There's no good answer here, but I do think that treating every single threat as a clear and present danger is necessary. Parents need to see that the school and the police are doing everything in their power to keep kids safe and students need to see that this type of non-sense will not be tolerated.

In a surrounding county a 12 year old and 10 year old were arrested. So young to have a record. But a little bit of accountability is what these kids need. And now that their child has a record maybe parents will talk to kids about not threatening to shoot people. I mean really. Right after FL I talked with my 4th grade brother and told him under no circumstances was he to EVER even joke about hurting someone. That it will be taken seriously and he will get in more than trouble. He said "I would never do that". Right, but you best believe Imma tell our crazy butt not to.

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In a surrounding county a 12 year old and 10 year old were arrested. So young to have a record. But a little bit of accountability is what these kids need. And now that their child has a record maybe parents will talk to kids about not threatening to shot people. I mean really. Right after FL I talked with my 4th grade brother and told him under no circumstances was he to EVER even joke about hurting someone. That it will be taken seriously and he will get in more than trouble. He said "I would never do that". Right, but you best believe Imma tell our crazy butt not to.

This. So much this.

Also, if it even prevents ONE shooting, I say go for it.

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How about the "ISIS inspired" teen who brought a homemade bomb to the Utah high school on Monday. Wonder why we haven't heard much about that?

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How about the "ISIS inspired" teen who brought a homemade bomb to the Utah high school on Monday. Wonder why we haven't heard much about that?

WHA!? You're right. I hadn't heard about this. *slinks off to Google*

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