Canadian Girl on a Stabbing spree at School

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/student-arrested-after-students-stabbed-at-canadian-school/2016/02/23/c7c559b0-daa1-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_story.html

Hello, I know it has been awhile if there are any of you who may have read my blog before today. Hello to new readers!  I have not posted for awhile due to life circumstances.  I am going to begin posting again. I have been recovering from depression, which was triggered by routine change due to adjusting to life without school. Anyways, I just thought to give you a little information, which may have been too much. 

Today we are discussing school violence with the use of weapons.  School violence has been in the newspapers for years now ever since the Columbine Shooting. Yes, school violence is rare even for the United States and really rare from some other countries.  Side note, school violence is still rare in the United States because if it was common it would happen as much times as normal violent crime like assault and rape. 

Canadian girl went psycho with two kitchen knives and began slashing fellow students and individuals down the hallways at her school.  This girl was flat out running through the halls of her school and slashing people.  That must have been a terrible sight.  

However, you do not see the news sites making a really big deal about the incident.  I think the only way that they would make a big story about is if she was wielding a gun rather than knives.  They also just had another school incident in Canada where a shooting occurred last month killing four people. 

Once again this shows that people who want to harm others will find ways to harm people with whatever weapon they can find or the most convenient.  Honestly, I think the reason school violence has become a problem is due lack of discipline, lack of responsibility, and lack of family support. 

Many children are not being taught to take responsibility for their own actions.  They are being taught to blame the world for their actions, make excuses, and are expecting not be punished for their actions.  Furthermore, it is the parents and teachers responsibility to discipline children when needed and to teach them to take responsibility for their actions.  Lastly, parents also need to try harder to have themselves or other family members watch their children and to get their children help when they notice that their is abnormal behavior to reduce school violence. 

Guns are not the problems, but lack of socialization, responsibility, and discipline are the problems. 

  

Principal Calls Off Honors Night

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/20/massachusetts-principal-calls-off-honor-night-because-it-could-be-devastating/

So I know it has been awhile since I posted.  However, school has been very busy and time consuming of late.  

Today I saw this article on FOX news saying that this principal has called off Honors Night because it will devastate those that have worked hard, but did not succeed.  However, those programs are there to motivate students to work hard so they could get recognized because many individuals are motivated by competition.  Furthermore, we use these rewards to show children that if they try hard they will get rewarded for their efforts.

In our society and with the way education is now, we need all the motivational tools in order to help children and teenagers succeed.  One of the motivational tools is competition. 

I have the link to the article above.  

Parents and the Government Part of the Problem with Education in America

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/18/us-mayors-back-parents-_n_1604975.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

The summary of this article is that the parents are taking back the schools.  Mayors and city councils are supporting laws and passing laws that make it possible for parents to override the school boards in their school districts. The parents now have the ability to fire teachers and do what they want with the schools like make them a private institution.   My problem with this education system is that some parents are to blame for the way things are going as well as the government. These mayors have the nerve to support these new laws, but they are not going to there state government or to the federal government to handle these problems.  They are the ones that need to take responsibility for the mess that the schools are in and the parents need to take more responsibility for not making their kids increasingly responsible for their grades (talking mainly high school with this comment).  The parents are responsible to encourage and help their children get good grades and to focus on their education.  They should punish for bad grades (not talking beating the crap out of them or anything like that).  People are so quick to blame teachers, but in reality it is a combination of all three. I am not trying to make an argument that all teachers are good teachers, there are a few that are terrible teachers.  

However, I think that everyone is responsible for the school systems failing.  The federal government does not focus enough on education.  They should focus on education because then you are going to have a surplus of workers for  minimal wage or for specialized areas in the future.  We need to encourage students to go to school and to do better than what is expected of them.  They need to be taught by parents, teachers, and the government that school is important, they need to be encouraged.  On the other hand, this is not a perfect world so there is always going to be people that are going to drop out, government officials that do not care, and teachers that are bad teachers.  

The government needs to focus on math and science programs so that we can get Americans into the fields.  However, that may not happen because employers can pay foreigners less than they can with Americans.  Americans can still fight for a better educational system, but please stop putting all the blame on teachers, school boards,and the administration because it is not solely there fault.  The parents need to make there children learn what responsibility and take responsibility if they have bad grades and if they think the teacher purposely gave them bad grades then they need to go to the school administration or the school board.  For example, when I was in school I felt like my PreCalculus teacher was not teaching me correctly and I went to the school administration to take me out of the class and to make a formal complaint. In the end, he was gone sometime within the year.  

Finally we are not going to have any real changes done unless we elect those that may have gone to a public school or put their kids in the public school system.  Everyone in Washington  Brother HL-2240 Laser Printer