Teaching in the Age of School Shootings

Trent Lovett is wearing a coat and there are teachers and teachers from Marshall County High School. From the left, Kelly Weaver, Amy Cathey, Cory Westerfield, Rob McDonald, Patricia Greer, Erin Mathis. Graham Mitchell at the New York Times

In Marshall County High School, in January the second year student killed two classmates and another 14 people were injured. Graham Mitchell at the New York Times

Cory Westerfield, a teacher of algebra and German, and a women's athletic coach of Marshall County High School. Graham Mitchell at the New York Times

Amy Cathey, Marshall County High School Cooking Instructor. Graham Mitchell at the New York Times

In the past five years, about 300 school shoots are taking place in the US (290 school shooting is taking place in the United States since 20113, in 2018. Of these, January 1, 2018 There were 17 shooting incidents from February 8th, but these statistics included incidents where guns were brought to school but were not dismissed, or cases where they were fired off campus (since 2013 , The 290 schools in the United States fired, 2018) is not included.The shooting in the school each have a serious impact on students, employees, schools, and our community and the society of the country, Effective learning (Beland & Kim, 2015: Juvonen, 2001, school shooting in the United States in 290 years from 2013, 2018)

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70% of perpetrators of shooting incidents at school were under 18 years old, median age was 16 years. More than 85% of school gunmen receive guns from their homes and relatives. Target school shooting like what happens with such discord events is about three times the number of indiscriminate events. The perpetrators of shooting at most schools did not show signs of psychosis such as psychosis or schizophrenia. "During the massacre of Colorado State and Colombane High School in 2015," over 40 people "dominated" Colombine style conspiracy ". Almost everyone is a teenager of a white male and nearly everyone is studying Colombine's attack or quotes the source of inspiration for Colombian perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Clever did.