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So as you all probably know last week there was a school shooting at Red Lake. For a journal assignment in my english class we are to write a reaction to this, so since I'm using this as my journal it's going here. As always happens people discussed how terrible this is, and how the kid was the loner in the school, and was picked on all the time etc etc. They then try to come up with solutions to the problem, but I don't really believe myself that there really is a solution. Sure we can raise violence awareness, and be nice to the kids that get pciked on, but what it really comes down to is that person's own dceision to commit that act of violence, and there really isn't much you can do as far as prevention. There are things you can to protect the innocent students, as we saw in effect today.
Today it was reported that there was a threat written in one of the boys' bathrooms in our school that tomorrow there was going to be a school shooting. Subsiquently we were let out of school alittle over fifteen mintues early, and all extracirricular activities were canceled. This I think was wise on the part of the school officials, because no one wants to lose students simply because a threat wasn't taken seriously. It's hard to believe that something like this really could happen at our school, even as Mr. K was giving the dismissal annoucement I couldn't help but think that they were paranoid, though as I was walking through the commons to get my painting, I could definlty imagine gunshots going off and pandemonium to follow.
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And on to lighter things like the play *sinister giggle* and scratching my eyes out before I leave. I leave in 1.5 days, and I have tons and tons of homework to do. I can't believe they're actually expecting the music studnets to get this stuff done. They'll never have time. I can probably manage, because i need something to occupy myself while Laurie is in class and doing her homework. But stupid discrete, I don't know hwo to do it, so I asked Mr. Eff for help today during my class, and as he was beginning to explain things, he had to run off and do something else, so if we don't have school tomorrow my discrete is going to struggle. Maybe Wonder Woman remembers it, but it's a risky bet.
But I have tons of other things I need to be working on, so Arrivederci for now.