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After a shooting at a school in Udvale, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, schools across the country stepped up security measures and teachers thought about how to prevent armed violence in the future.
Jaume. E. Fury, a Wisconsin public school teacher, suggested that the key to peace is to fix the environment.
“My thoughts on school shooting in general are that people don’t commit these acts when they feel they belong, so they create environments where everyone feels they’re likely to result in fewer shootings,” Fury told Fox News Digital.
Fury also advocated better monitoring when it comes to people who are often in the hands of law enforcement, only to be released and commit more crimes.
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“It has also become apparent that many of these shooters have been hired by law enforcement previously,” he noted. “There is some kind of failure between this contact and the follow-up of what to do with a person who often has problems or threatens others, or acts in a disruptive way. We don’t seem to have excellent answers in this country about how to deal with mental health problems, and the “visibility” of this mental illness has done nothing to curb its onset. “
High school teacher Daniel Buck similarly told Fox News Digital that “what unites all these mass shooters is their identities as loners.”
“His policy and self-reported justifications are everywhere,” Buck said. “But there are no social connections, participation in school programs, church attendance or any other institutional involvement. It is a cultural cause that finds expression through tragic acts of armed violence.”
The solutions are, he said, “unfortunately, in the long run.”
“A new emphasis on family, church, social connections and distance from social media,” Buck suggested. “These trends have been around for decades and will take decades to reverse.”
Short-term mitigation measures, he said, should focus on enhanced safety measures and spending on school safety.
Christopher Maraschiello, who has taught high school and high school history for nearly three decades, said his buildings are generally “fairly safe.”
“We have a full-time school resources officer who is from the community and who knows most of our children,” he told Fox News Digital.
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“There are a lot of politicians in this country today, especially from my own party, who have a lot to answer for,” he said. “Texas, on the other hand, is just a poster of gun rights out of control. I’m a historian, so I can tell you that gun violence in America is nothing new. The problem is the Internet, the networks social media, violent video games and a 24-hour news cycle plus all the usual pressures and undiagnosed mental illness, that’s a big deal. “
Payge Guenzler, a Montana teacher, urged parents to be more involved in their children’s lives.
“What happened in Texas today was horrible,” he wrote on Facebook. “As a society we can start blaming politics or being in favor of certain laws or the lack of them. We can start pointing the finger and saying it’s the fault of one side or the other. It seems that networks social media allows people to be all the screen warriors when promoting their opinions … But here’s the problem with society that I see as an educator … Start raising your own children d — and leave to depend on schools, daycares and the rest of society to do it for you. “
Montana teacher Payge Guenzler posted on Facebook asking parents to get involved in their children’s lives.
Rebecca Friedrichs, who has been a public school teacher for 28 years and is the founder of For Kids and Country, told Fox News Digital that she believes schools need to teach values and morals.
“We cannot create enough laws to stop this school shooting problem, instead we need a rebirth of the value of human life that we once had in this country,” he said. “And beyond human life … in the schools of America, I used to teach morals.”
Friedrichs blamed teachers’ unions for the change in schools, saying they pushed for a curriculum that is “divisive.”
“They have removed the moral compass,” he said. “Thanks to teachers’ unions and their policies … now children who are out of control cannot be disciplined.”
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Freidrichs said it was “tragic” that the solution could be to increase school resource officers and a police presence on campus.
“Of course, someone should be able to defend these … innocent victims,” he said. “Some force on campus that we hope will scare someone who comes to shoot innocent people.”
The Chicago Teachers Union encouraged violence to be seen as a “public health crisis” and treated as an “epidemic” of income inequality and hardship.
“Our children need committed adults who will finally address the root causes of violence in this nation, recognize violence as the public health crisis it is, confront racism as a contributing factor to violence, and address violence in in the context of an epidemic of income inequality and chronic economic hardship that has been sidelined in many communities for decades, “the union wrote in a statement. “We must do this while continuing the painful and vital national account of racial inequality and white supremacy, in the face of a well-funded right-wing extremist movement.”
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Schools across the country have announced new security protocols following the Texas shooting, including a backpacking ban, increased police presence and “vague measures.”