Ping!
Beautiful strategy. Thanks from a former teacher. God bless!
It sounds like social engineering. What if the kid and the family just want to be left alone? Will they all be forced into “counseling” or worse...have their child taken away? While it is well-intended, it could easily be misused or perverted. Having the adults at school who care to do so be armed would be better.
Look, I agree with this approach pre high school, but it will not stop school shootings, even though it will probably help some kids find more friends. But the purpose of school is not to teach social values, no matter how much some people preach this.
The schools need to concentrate on the outline of learning that a class is following. Maybe a class on ethics could teach values. Because that would be the subject of the class, but a class on algebra has no business finding out who is lonely in class.
Note that the teacher could ask the class about which lessons they understood and which should be taught over, that might prove illustrating to the teacher.
Thank you for the ping.
This is a great idea & yet simple to implement. It also requires a teacher who cares. It would be interesting to know how the teacher helped those kids who were “unfriended”. It would also be interesting to hear reflections from the students who were helped.
It is rare that an elementary school student shoots up his school.
Interesting.
Thanks for the ping, AW.