Posted on 12/11/2007 4:50:40 PM PST by charles m
LAS VEGAS - Six junior high or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus, and two were critically hurt, police said.
Gunshots rang out in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.
Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.
At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.
The shooting occurred less than a mile from two elementary schools, Woolley and Clyde Cox Elementary Schools. A Clark County School District official said the schools were not closed.
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Associated Press writer Kathleen Hennessey contributed to this report.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six junior high or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus, and two were critically hurt, police said.
Gunshots rang out in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.
Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.
At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.
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If communities are liberal, so the schools will be, and vice versa.
One can also argue that the larger culture is more decadent than it was, say 50 years ago, but that is not necessarily the fault of the schools and may in fact be a major cause of the problems in schools today.
It seems to me that a major ideological failing in this country is the perception that schools are able to solve all the ills of society, when in fact they frequently merely reflect said ills.
there should be a law that states all criminals should be referred to as dumbass... that way they won’t be glamorized by the media...
dumbass media...
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Koom bi ya, Koom bi bleeeeech!!!
I think I get your point but I'm not sure I can agree totally.
If schools were merely a reflection of the communities, then private schools should have the same results as public schools.
I agree that parental involvement can have a profound effect in the school system; the problem is there simply isn't enough of it.
Great post. I agree 100%!
Bravo to your wife. On the other hand, I will say that it pisses me off that I must get a license to do what the 2nd plainly allows without one, or risk prosecution.
Not really...private schools by definition serve a population that wants something different and is willing to pay for it...and frequently, if parents feel strongly enough about it to pay private school tuition, they are going to insist that teachers provide what they want and that their children comply with the rules.
Usually private schools have higher academic standards and stricter discipline than public schools.
By contrast, how many times have you heard of parents suing public schools (or threatening to do so) because said parents thought the discipline and academic standards were unduely harsh toward their little darlings? I'm convinced that part of the lowering of standards in public schools is due to threats of such lawsuits. By contrast, if you don't like the policies of a private school, they can tell you to go elsewhere.
I agree that parental involvement can have a profound effect in the school system; the problem is there simply isn't enough of it.
Often, there isn't. Sometimes, there is too much, of a negative nature. I frequently think that parents who worry too much about their child's "creativity" and "self-esteem" are detrimental to a school system.
A private school has a different community. Community doesn't necessarily mean just the surrounding area and people within.
The private school community would consist of the parents, students and teachers involved. Economically, they may not differ from their neighbors, but their values and goals are likely very different. It's a subset.
Inch by inch the media is working at degrading America into a cesspool through
the propaganda that is spewed every day throughout America.
Yes, they are trying to win America no matter the cost.
The price may be to high for them to handle in the end.
It's to bad that regret is after the fact, and most don't recognize it until it's to late.
God Bless America.
If your a young disaffected man, you can become famous too.
Kill 10 people and your name is known word wide for many days.
Why just commit suicide in anonymity, when you can have the whole world know your name, see your picture and know your beef, worldwide?
I predict there will be another 10+ killed in the next 3 days. It is almost inevitable.
Another fact is LA, Cal has lower crime than most all cities in this country of comparable size.
Interesting huh?
My impression is that L.A.'s infamous black gang subculture of the 1980s and 90s has largely been forced to relocate to Las Vegas and other cities by massive waves of illegal immigration. They were just getting overwhelmed by sheer numbers in L.A. The many unreported shootings in and around the Strip always seem to have a black hip-hop subculture connection.
MS-13 notwithstanding, the illegal Mexicans are not as violent on average as the urban blacks who preceded them. Leading one to surmise that this unorthodox form of urban renewal was one of the unstated goals of the open borders Republicans - to leaven out those criminal syndicates and Democrat voting blocs with waves of more politically malleable newcomers.
You stated it was also outside the big cities in some states.......
I grew up in NYC, I know about big city schools, public and private. Trouble is not confined to public schools, be they in big cities or rural communities.
Where I live, which is very rural, the good kids, academically and socially, do not want to go to the only private HS in the area because it is a haven for the bad kids and the gangs.
Agree.........just too weird to be chance that this crap only happens on the rats congressional watch.
These little fantasy filled murderers need too know this.....
Not one of you has won your sad sick little gamer episode with real guns. You and your kind may score a few points choosing the playing field that says no guns allowed or banned by law.......but trust in this ya little POS’s.
You will die a horrible and horrific death on the “playing” field by armed civilians or LEO’s and or endure hard core physical attacks during your hopefully short stay in jail and prison before yer put down like the rabid animals you want too be...
Sick little sacks of crap piss me off.
Doom on em .
Stay safe GR !
nite !
Don’t worry I’m sure Reid is on it!Yea Crime fighter Harry Reid.
Which is pretty much... everything.
But you do it with such belligerent panache.
No. Probably just typical urban violence carried on the nationwide media screen as part of a nationwide effort, as the mainstream media is determined to effectuate a redefinition of the Second Amendment by SCOTUS and have them support Washington D.C.’s gun bans.
Not really, satan is being cornered with the upcoming scotus case, iraq is history and elections are edging toward conservative platformsand. the gloves are coming off. Its only gonna get worse before it gets better...
remember, the good guys win in the end...
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