I am a retired teacher. I taught for over 20 years in small towns. My average class size was 18 students. The teachers knew all the student’s parents. The parents knew all the instructors. We were a community.
Most of my students were ranch kids, drove Ford pickups to school and had rifles racked in the rear window. There were never any gun incidents.....a few fist fights, but nothing more.
I guess what I am trying to get at is this. Schools are too big, classes are too large. There is no longer a sense of personal recognition nor community caring for each other.
Therein lies the danger to our children.
True indeed.
And we had the small church mass murders.
I graduated high school in 70. My school had split shifts because we had over 3000 students. Never had a shooting and no school cops.