Harden every school in America starting with high schools. Ban Ritalin for young boys. Ban guns in movies, TV shows and video games. Then see how that works.
Banning the portrayal of guns in popular media is no different than attempting prohibition on alcohol or tobacco. People who want it will find a way to have it. People who are otherwise responsible with consumption are the only people who suffer under those rules.
I do agree, however, that we are way too quick to hand over a pill to control someone’s mood. Plus we’ve taken away the ability for kids to go outside, get scraped up, ride bikes, climb trees, burn off all that extra energy in lieu of digital nannies that require little more than moving one’s hands.
Poor parenting and lack of safety awareness on the part of adults who are (not) raising these kids is the problem, but no one is going to actually cause them to be better parents so we should not look there.
The two things we need to do, and pay the price, are 1. harden the schools, with our metal detecting and armed body guard understanding. The schools need to be limited access and controlled — see cruise ships for the example. and 2. The use of firearms needs to be permitted in the case of highly trained and local personnel at the schools. There is no reason an adult on a campus should not have a concealed firearm if they are trained as well as a peace officer. The school can hire these people and maintain their certification and they can come from the administration, teaching, and coaching staff or be specifically hired as resource officers.
These things need to be done because we cannot make parents be better — some will heed the call, but to many don’t know what to do.
Poor parenting and lack of safety awareness on the part of adults who are (not) raising these kids is the problem, but no one is going to actually cause them to be better parents so we should not look there.
The two things we need to do, and pay the price, are 1. harden the schools, with our metal detecting and armed body guard understanding. The schools need to be limited access and controlled — see cruise ships for the example. and 2. The use of firearms needs to be permitted in the case of highly trained and local personnel at the schools. There is no reason an adult on a campus should not have a concealed firearm if they are trained as well as a peace officer. The school can hire these people and maintain their certification and they can come from the administration, teaching, and coaching staff or be specifically hired as resource officers.
These things need to be done because we cannot make parents be better — some will heed the call, but to many don’t know what to do.
Our public school kids are being systematically re-engineered to fit a psychological mold they can better control.
"Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences."
THIS is the explanation foisted on the school boards that vote yes to surveil our children:
Upper echelon educators are being trained through Harvard (primarily) to probe a child's thoughts so that they may develop a plan to guide each child to end up in a common thought process.
Notice the word "Neuroscience" in the description.
They've been at this a long time and IMO, some kids are just getting more feral because what should be a civilized thought pattern for life ... is not, but a planned program that (I believe) the young mind knows something isn't right, but does not have the cognitive tools to discern and protect itself against.
The parents are clueless.
If they ask, they're told the school is watching for "at risk" kids.
"UDL-aligned strategies are instructional methods and tools used by teachers to ensure that ALL students have an equal opportunity to learn. All of our strategies are aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines.
Scroll down to; "The state is collecting data on our kids"
The modern, progressive public school (government indoctrination center), realizes the public is not happy so it is endeavoring to make as many kids as it can SPEDS (Special Education) in order to keep and increase government (tax) tax money flowing in.
It's time to shut the entire concept of public schooling down.