When will we connect the dots? Students and teachers continue to die as violence in our schools continues to escalate. What has changed? What is different?
The elephant in the room is technology. With advances in technology has come increasing evidence that there are some among us who simply cannot handle this freedom. One dead student is one too many. One dead teacher is one too many.
Video game technology has advanced to the point that young and old alike can experience the impact of killing another human being, from a first person perspective. The impact is repeated, violent, and so realistic that it creates a vivid, almost real killing experience.
Young minds, that are not full-developed, either cognitively or socially-emotionally, are saturated in this realistic violent gaming world for hours that stretch in to years. Haven't enough people died? How many more Colleen Ritzer's and Reggie Landsbury's must there be?
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