Tag: school shootings

This Monday morning, parents were dropping their children off at The Covenant School anticipating a bright, sunny, promising day of love, friendship and learning. No one could fathom what would happen soon after this, when a 28-year-old assailant entered the building and opened fire, resulting in the loss of life for three 9-year-old children, three adults on staff and then the assailant as police intervened.

I know that we are the lucky ones. Many other young people — children — have had their lives stolen from them. The parents of 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, aren’t consoling their kids in their loss of innocence, but are being consoled in their grief following the loss of their children.

We more often seem to be an educational business with some accents of Christian language that serve as our special brand. As such, we prepare for an active shooter like most other higher education businesses: campus alert systems, drills, instructional videos.

When deadly school shootings like the one that took place on Valentine’s Day in Broward County, Florida occur, often they are followed by calls for more stringent security measures.

On Friday, (Oct. 24), we all heard terrible news yet again. Another school shooting. Another tragedy. And, unfortunately, just another news story...

There have been 74 shootings since the Sandy Hook tragedy. That’s on average of one shooting every week.