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A letter to the editor from Mary Price in Scotts Valley
EDITOR,
Regarding your article “Staged lockdown to test school readiness” in the Oct. 5 issue, I feel that this is an inefficient way to deal with preparing for school shootings. Our tax dollars will be paying for firefighters, officials, teachers, paramedics and even the highway patrol to create a “Level 1” lockdown in which the “suspects” will be shot at with paintball guns and “victims” will be driven off in an ambulance.
What are we hoping to gain from this? This fiasco will only show adolescents how “fun” and “cool” violence can be. In a world where violence is already marketed everywhere — television, advertisements, video games, and movies — this lockdown will be sheer entertainment for our youth, and nothing more.
Don’t misunderstand me; I think the cause is important. The tragedy from Columbine High School is still remembered with sadness and regret, but I think that this lockdown would not benefit our schools.
Instead, I think we should focus the money closer to the root of the problem. Perhaps campaigning to make gun control laws stricter or offering more psychological counseling at schools for the students.
It is a topic that deserves being taught; however, I think this is the wrong way to go about it. It seems that teaching nonviolence by showing violence is contradictory.
Mary Price, Scotts Valley
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