“Politicians aren’t in our classroom, we’re the ones in the classrooms,” one teacher said.
Nowhere is America’s problem with guns more striking than in the nation’s schools. Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, to name just a few: hundreds of schools and colleges across the country have been the scene of traumatic shootings.
The solutions to the gun violence epidemic—by no means restricted only to schools—have largely focused on revamping security procedures in schools. Metal detectors, bag checks, armed security guards and even armed teachers have all been introduced, but the killings continue. Mental health issues are also a major drivers of student violence, the teachers explained, all three calling for greater resources to help treat such conditions.
“In the United States, at least, more than half of the counties nationwide don’t have a single facility for mental health…It’s a systemic problem within schools, it’s a systemic problem within our society as a whole…That’s what we’re really going to try and push.”
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