This past month there has been something like 20 shootings here in Sweden, most but not all, in the Stockholm area. Not mass shootings but drug gang related. The most horrible thing is that most of the shooters are children - teenagers 15 - 16 years.
At New Years my 4 year old grandson told me - out of the blue - that children can’t go to prison for anything they do how illegal it is!!! So he could do anything he wanted.... told him that even when it’s true that we in Sweden don’t lock children up, we do take action - you will be removed from home and your mother. The last having him rethinking.
But it is so scary that even a 4-year old can even think like this. And all the 15 years old boys who partly believe it’s true that they won’t go to prison or have any other repercussion. Of course some of them are threatened into doing this. But still they should feel secure enough in society to tell a grownup before acting. But I think your daughters comment is right- too often we expect them to just carry on like nothing happened. Nobody lost a son, a brother, a friend.
Thank you Lotte, for giving us a perspective from outside the US. I guess violence is a worldwide problem :( though mass shootings are uniquely American. The comment from your grandson is eye opening. He is so young to be aware of such beliefs?? Even if he is repeating something that he heard somewhere, it seemed like he understood enough.
We have a plan at school what each class has to do if there’s an active shooter lockdown. It is hardly anything considering all our doors are mostly glass. So I’ve come up with a plan b. T sucks that I have to even have a plan a, let alone a plan b. I play out exactly what needs to be orchestrated if it ever came down to it. I review this plan at least twice a year if not more just to make sure I have some modicum of “muscle memory”.
Yes, it sucks that you even have to have a plan and says a lot that as a teacher you even feel compelled to have a Plan B. I hope you never have to exercise it.
This past month there has been something like 20 shootings here in Sweden, most but not all, in the Stockholm area. Not mass shootings but drug gang related. The most horrible thing is that most of the shooters are children - teenagers 15 - 16 years.
At New Years my 4 year old grandson told me - out of the blue - that children can’t go to prison for anything they do how illegal it is!!! So he could do anything he wanted.... told him that even when it’s true that we in Sweden don’t lock children up, we do take action - you will be removed from home and your mother. The last having him rethinking.
But it is so scary that even a 4-year old can even think like this. And all the 15 years old boys who partly believe it’s true that they won’t go to prison or have any other repercussion. Of course some of them are threatened into doing this. But still they should feel secure enough in society to tell a grownup before acting. But I think your daughters comment is right- too often we expect them to just carry on like nothing happened. Nobody lost a son, a brother, a friend.
Thank you Lotte, for giving us a perspective from outside the US. I guess violence is a worldwide problem :( though mass shootings are uniquely American. The comment from your grandson is eye opening. He is so young to be aware of such beliefs?? Even if he is repeating something that he heard somewhere, it seemed like he understood enough.
We have a plan at school what each class has to do if there’s an active shooter lockdown. It is hardly anything considering all our doors are mostly glass. So I’ve come up with a plan b. T sucks that I have to even have a plan a, let alone a plan b. I play out exactly what needs to be orchestrated if it ever came down to it. I review this plan at least twice a year if not more just to make sure I have some modicum of “muscle memory”.
Yes, it sucks that you even have to have a plan and says a lot that as a teacher you even feel compelled to have a Plan B. I hope you never have to exercise it.