Are you playing the "Blame Game"? 😬

Published: Tue, 05/16/23

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First-grade School Shooting in Virginia, 2023

Early this year, 2023, a first-grade teacher in Virginia was shot in the chest by one of her 6-year-old students. Yes, SIX years old.

Soon after, the teacher sued the school district for $40 million in damages, accusing them of being negligent in protecting her. Supporting her claim, she said:

School administrators were warned on three occasions that the child had a gun.

Sounds like a reasonable support for SCHOOL negligence, doesn’t it? NO, it doesn’t.

Would you care to guess how many times this child behaved badly at home, with nobody stopping the behavior?

Oh, after 30 years of experience, I’d estimate at least a thousand times, but the parents are not being held responsible at all for failing to teach that child how to behave in acceptable ways?

We’re saying that it’s the school’s fault that this child was not properly loved and taught? The parents had the boy under their care for 85% of the hours of a year, but the SCHOOL is responsible for the child’s behavior?

Not a chance. It’s all about the parents. Always is.

The parents taught and cemented the pattern of thinking and behavior that led to a choice that just happened to take place in a school. Who failed here? The school? No.