Rio

   Well the weekend has come once again. I have had a long week as I am sure that most of you have had. This week was a big week for education. We had a house bill that was passed to cut our funding, and an article was posted that suggests that the future of education funding may lead to law suits, and there was a school shooting in Brazil. These shootings are scary for parents and for teachers. This is a big deal that it has happened outside the US. The article, which I will include below, talks about a man that came into an elementary school in Rio and just started shooting. What is the world coming to, now we have to be worried about gun man kids and random guys that kill children? I am astounded by the people that think that others are the problem. The people that kill others instead of doing us all a favor and killing themselves first. What could 12 kids have done to a man that would cause him to take that sort of action? The answer is nothing. School shootings are something that everyone puts in the back of their mind, but is constantly there.
  When a school shooting happens it forces us to face that fear, to see how we would react. The natural reaction, like with terrorism, is to regulate the freedom that people have away. While we must balance our freedom and our safety all to often instances where we feel threatened cause us to be even more willing to give up the freedoms that we hold dear. I do not know what a solution is. The easiest thing to do would be to give up our right to protect ourselves. To erase guns from every corner of the country. Brazil may just vote to do that. Big brother could watch our every move and when we start fitting a certain profile could haul us in to have a conversation, but any one of those options can still fail. This is an unfortunate risk of living in the world that we live in. All I can do is make sure that I am as careful as I can be, and that I watch for signs of kids struggling so maybe I can be there. A student that you see every day is a little easier to spot, but some stranger is a scarier case. I wish those in Brazil the best, as those 12 families have lost their children and a large part of their life.


Brazil Gunman kills 12

Until Monday have a great weekend,
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant