I have read all of the posts and have come to one conclusion.
Rather than bash public schools or extol homeschool virtues, I am going to pray for those who were affected, the families of the children who are in critical condition and for the police to nab those who did this to children.
I think that in our rushes to point fingers, we have forgotten one very important thing: some children, young children, have been seriously hurt and need some serious help.
I honestly don’t think that any of this is the school’s fault. It didn’t happen on the campus as near as I can tell; it just happened near a school bus.
If it’s gang related, they would have got *hit* sometime sooner or later. They just happened to conveniently be in one place at one time, and likely no one was targeting all six of the kids. I’d guess it was just one or two and the rest were just collateral damage, so to speak- they sadly got caught in the crossfire.
Stomach wounds are bad. Those kids especially need our prayer.
Shag..I think that's the whole point.
How will these children ever get help if we continue to pour money down the rat hole of a seriously flawed system?
How will we ever turn it around?
Prayer is fine but it won't tackle the central problem we have associated with the poor, unacceptable performance of today's big city (and some entire states) public school system.
A good man like George Bush has tried to turn the system around, poured countless amounts of resources and money into it and yet....
From the CNN report this particular school needs some “bashing”.
I will pray that parents and kids will soon find some way to get out of that horrible environment.