Subject: Re: Deja Vu all over again
You and I may know better than to pay much attention to stories issued seconds after an event but it is this content that circulates around social media and text messages nationwide prior to "real reports" coming out. It's this quality of information that is taking an existing bad problem (mass shootings in general, school shootings in particular) and making voters all over the country even more ignorant and fearful, which drives them further away from a state of understanding that could empower them to take actions that could change something for the better.

Here is a quote from an NBC story updated fifteen minutes ago that seems to confirm all schools in the district were put on lockdown:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

All campuses of Barrow County Schools, based in Winder, Georgia, went into a "soft lockdown" with most of the activity centered around Apalachee H.S. where police cars, fire trucks and ambulances had all converged.

Does that district serve the entire county? It isn't clear from the school's web site at https://www.barrow.k12.ga.us/ but the site says it serves a total of 15,340 students in 17 schools from K-12. Even so, was it really in the best interest of all 15,340 students in that district to experience a lockdown if the incident was limited to the 1894 students at one of the two high schools? I'm not a mental health expert but I'm pretty sure the answer would be no.


WTH