Schools in the News

Have you watched the news lately? Well I have been trying to more lately and realized how depressing it can be. Both Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools are all over the news. They are not just on the news for academics either, but it consists more of shootings and sexual assaults. Earlier this week a student at Hamilton High School in Memphis shot another student. Then an expelled student of Millington-Central High School in Shelby County sexually assaulted another student in the bathroom about an hour and a half after school was let out. This is insane and extremely disappointing. We need to do something about our two school systems. I know that these kinds of things can happen anywhere at anytime but I also think that if the schools were safer and had more supervision then these incidents would not occur. It seems as if the students no longer respect the teachers or students. It also seems like that police officers are no longer a threat. Why is this? I definitely think that there should be strict consequences when these incidents do occur so that maybe the students would be more afraid. Now I realize why I do not like to watch the news, it is too depressing.