It
is an unfortunate case that should bring about new awareness to schools
policies on supervision or even security. Obviously girls and boys around this
age are just as capable of murder or firing a gun as an adult even though
justice cannot be done because they are still only children in the grand scheme
of things. Of course the mother would be upset losing a daughter but
unfortunately at such a young age a typical punishment for other similar cases
is time in a juvenile detention center. It is not fair but that is the law
and the system we use I our country. Again, the important thing to get out of
this horrible case is that something needs to be done to prevent it from
happening in the future. We all need to learn from mistakes and flaws in our
systems so that something like this can be avoided in the future. I agree that
children should be escorted in and out of schools but that is not practiced nor
are there any laws that enforce anything like this. When I was eleven I walked
to school so I can understand how the opportunity for this fight to came about.
But, that still doesn’t make it right. Our public education system compared to
other countries is considered a fairly good program but that is in a separate
category as far as ranking. We have a shockingly high percentage of incidences
such as Joanna’s case as well as other cases related to drugs or weapons among
our children in our school systems. I don’t know if I would go as far as to say
the school is to blame because not everything can be prevented unless we put
into action laws that require teachers to watch children entering and exiting
before and after school. I would definitely agree that the school would be to
blame if these laws were enforced at the time of the incident. The student
should most definitely be charged in one form or another. If children aren’t
punished for something this serious they will never learn. She should be
punished in the most severe manner without a doubt because taking a life is
horrific crime. I also agree that some systems in our government need to
be revised and altered. If it were my child I would want justice but at
the same time I’ve lost friends and family to violence and know that no matter
what the consequences are for the defendant no punishment will right the wrong
done.
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