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Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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/hugs Chow, I hope that it was just one very bad day and that things get better, whatever you are dealing with.
EDIT to the below, they caught the guy and everyone is safe and OK.
I just saw a post by a friend on Facebook that his daughter's school is in lockdown in Tacoma, WA because there is a shooter on the grounds. He was on the way to take her to school when they got the alert, turned around and went home. This school has multiple buildings in a forested setting, and while they notified parents to keep kids away and are locking other kids in classrooms, most students were on their way to class. Many are now hiding in bushes, hoping not to be hit, the daughter is texting back and forth with a few who are presently doing this.
I cannot even imagine being a parent going through this kind of anxiety. I mean, my kids finished school just a few years ago, technically within the realm of America's "school shooting crisis" yet we got lucky and were not impacted by any incident. It is difficult and scary enough to be a parent, for so many reasons, without this kind of thing on top of it.
On the same day the Uvalde shooting happened, there was a massive fight right across the street from my old HS in Northern Virginia (SS I’m sure you are familiar with the particular one from memory). 30-50 kids involved, one got stabbed to death. At the school itself, there are no less than 4 uniformed city cops there on any school day. Just scary to think that someone could be in danger trying to handle their business in the classroom. Even as a reformed degenerate myself, we had a code of honor that forbade harming others that didn’t engage with us. Now there is no honor, just a race to harm people for the hell of it.
On the same day the Uvalde shooting happened, there was a massive fight right across the street from my old HS in Northern Virginia (SS I’m sure you are familiar with the particular one from memory). 30-50 kids involved, one got stabbed to death. At the school itself, there are no less than 4 uniformed city cops there on any school day. Just scary to think that someone could be in danger trying to handle their business in the classroom. Even as a reformed degenerate myself, we had a code of honor that forbade harming others that didn’t engage with us. Now there is no honor, just a race to harm people for the hell of it.
There was an incident over the weekend where a baby was killed in a drive-by in broad daylight in downtown Pittsburgh. People are getting really aggressive for no reason.
On the same day the Uvalde shooting happened, there was a massive fight right across the street from my old HS in Northern Virginia (SS I’m sure you are familiar with the particular one from memory). 30-50 kids involved, one got stabbed to death. At the school itself, there are no less than 4 uniformed city cops there on any school day. Just scary to think that someone could be in danger trying to handle their business in the classroom. Even as a reformed degenerate myself, we had a code of honor that forbade harming others that didn’t engage with us. Now there is no honor, just a race to harm people for the hell of it.
Now that I’m 61, I can say, “Back in my day (lol)” . . . if someone wanted to commit suicide, they just did it. They didn’t take innocent people with them.
I thought that I was a bit of a tough ol’ girl, but I can’t even watch the news. The kids in Uvalde are my grandson’s age. I can’t even fathom life without him.
And if I felt the least bit responsible for what happened In Uvalde (or wouldn’t take responsibility like the staff in Oxford), I wouldn’t/couldn’t live with myself. I would end it right there.
On the same day the Uvalde shooting happened, there was a massive fight right across the street from my old HS in Northern Virginia (SS I’m sure you are familiar with the particular one from memory). 30-50 kids involved, one got stabbed to death. At the school itself, there are no less than 4 uniformed city cops there on any school day. Just scary to think that someone could be in danger trying to handle their business in the classroom. Even as a reformed degenerate myself, we had a code of honor that forbade harming others that didn’t engage with us. Now there is no honor, just a race to harm people for the hell of it.
Now you got me wondering which school it was. But I can tell you that I can imagine this happening at one of the high schools I went to (and the one I was enrolled in the longest of the 4 different high schools I went to)... Gar-Field. And yeah we were some degenerates for sure back then, but the worst anybody worried about back then was getting "jumped", but most of those incidents still did not end in hospitalization. Not something anyone wanted to endure, certainly, but NOTHING like how things go down now. And it was pretty rare, still.
Like I would have been the last to consider home schooling my kids, that used to be something the religious nuts did, but not anymore man. I'm just glad every day that mine are grown.
I've got friends who are having babies right now, too and I just can't even imagine. At least in the US. Be a little different in the French countryside probably!
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I'm uh...starting to get worried over here, Chow. You ok?
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Now you got me wondering which school it was. But I can tell you that I can imagine this happening at one of the high schools I went to (and the one I was enrolled in the longest of the 4 different high schools I went to)... Gar-Field. And yeah we were some degenerates for sure back then, but the worst anybody worried about back then was getting "jumped", but most of those incidents still did not end in hospitalization. Not something anyone wanted to endure, certainly, but NOTHING like how things go down now. And it was pretty rare, still.
Like I would have been the last to consider home schooling my kids, that used to be something the religious nuts did, but not anymore man. I'm just glad every day that mine are grown.
I've got friends who are having babies right now, too and I just can't even imagine. At least in the US. Be a little different in the French countryside probably!
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I'm uh...starting to get worried over here, Chow. You ok?
If you want to think of that HS just Remember the Titans.
If you want to think of that HS just Remember the Titans.
Aaaah, ok. You were a little further up than I was.
Speaking of which, is life treating you any better now you've gotten away from DC? I always thought it was a stressful place to live.
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Thanks for the update, that is a cool picture!