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Edit-Breaking News-School Shooting/Stabbing (sep. incidents)

#1 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:50 am

Columbia High School East Greenbush, NY. Teacher shot by Student, school on Lockdown. More details to follow.

Multiple School Stabbings - Weaver High School Hartford, CT, possibly related to a weekend dispute. 4 in Custody, school locked down.

Haven't found any other information yet.
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#2 Postby Stephanie » Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:55 am

*&^!@#$!!!!

Not AGAIN! :x
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#3 Postby firefighter16 » Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:58 am

What the.......... :x
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#4 Postby wx247 » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:05 pm

How very,very sad. :(
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#5 Postby bfez1 » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:22 pm

What is heck is going on here in the US with all of these school shootings----UGHHHH!!!
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#6 Postby TexasStooge » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:27 pm

Oh boy, another shooting?! :roll:
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#7 Postby blizzard » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:56 pm

bfez1 wrote:What is heck is going on here in the US with all of these school shootings----UGHHHH!!!


Kids hear about these things on the news and see that the person doing the shooting gets alot of attention, and he/she thinks....Hmmmm...I can get attention this way too, and repeats the act.

IMO, all these shootings shouldn't be broadcast as much as they are, it is just breeding copycats who are looking for attention. This really infuriates me.
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#8 Postby Guest » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:03 pm

I agree Blizzard. These kids want the limelight - no matter who they hurt. Stop the coverage and I bet the shootings slow down....
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#9 Postby Skywatch_NC » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:06 pm

Time to bring back corporal punishment into the classroom! :grrr:

Parents want to sue the faculty for disciplining their kids...time to turn the tables and have the faculty countersue the parents!

My prayers and thoughts with the teacher who was shot. :cry:

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#10 Postby Stormsfury » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:07 pm

Stephanie wrote:*&^!@#$!!!!

Not AGAIN! :x


My sentiments exactly ...

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#11 Postby stormraiser » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:56 pm

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=217155&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=2/9/2004

Story in Albany NY paper re: the shooting.

Teacher shot by student at Columbia High School
Special-education teacher Michael Bennett treated and released from hospital; student taken into custody

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Last updated: 12:40 p.m., Monday, February 9, 2004
EAST GREENBUSH -- Special-education teacher Michael Bennett was shot today at Columbia High School in East Greenbush, State Police said.

Two men were taken into police custody. One of them was in handcuffs, and he was identified by East Greenbush Superintendent Terrance Brewer as student Jon Romano. Brewer would not say if the other person in custody is a student.

The shooting happened before 11 a.m. in a hallway at the school in Rensselaer County. Brewer said three rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun were fired. One shot, Brewer said, hit special-education teacher Michael Bennett. Brewer said assistant principal John Sawchuk then stopped the student and held him until police came.

The school was placed in lockdown. Students, who were being kept in their classrooms, are being transported to Goff Middle School on Gilligan Road in East Greenbush. Brewer said that no students had been injured in the incident.

Bennett, a popular coach, graduate of the school and the married father of two, was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital. He was treated and released early this afternoon.

''He's a great guy,'' said Shay Harrison, who has worked as assistant coach of the girls varsity basketball team, which Bennett coaches. ''He's got a wife, two kids, had a little girl three months ago.''

Bennett also coaches junior varsity football and freshmen baseball. He graduated from Columbia High School in 1985.

''We're both graduates of Columbia. He was five years ahead of me,'' Harrison said. ''He was always a good guy.''

''It was the scariest thing ever,'' Emily Molineaux, a senior at the high school told Capital News 9, which had a reporter on the scene covering an unrelated story when the shooting occurred. ''We had no clue exactly what was happening.''

Molineaux said a teacher came running into her room and told the class to say put.

''He was saying 'This is not a drill,''' Molineaux said, adding that people were screaming to lock the doors inside the school.

Shortly before noon, school buses drove up to the high school to pick up students, and the first few busloads of students have arrived at Goff Middle School. Parents who arrive at the high school are being directed there.

A news briefing was scheduled for noon at Goff Middle School.

Standing outside the school this morning, Felicia Farran said her daughter, Kristin, a 10th-grade student, called her from a cell phone.

Farran's husband, Bill, said, ''When you hear about a shooting, you think about Columbine.'' He said all schools should be equipped with metal detectors. ''With everything that's going on in the world, you need them.'' East Greenbush Town Supervisor Robert Angelini said he knows Bennett, who played basketball with his son Gerry in high school. Angelini's daughter, Tracy Farrell, also teaches at Columbia High.

He described Bennett as a mild-mannered, gentle man.

``He wouldn't curse if you slammed his toe,'' he said. ``He is a very softspoken individual.''

Angelini was awaiting a briefing by police, but it appeared the town's plan for emergencies worked.

``From all indications, it appeared everything went into place right away,'' he said. ``Police shut down the school. They had everything under control.''
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#12 Postby weatherluvr » Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:03 pm

blizzard wrote:
bfez1 wrote:What is heck is going on here in the US with all of these school shootings----UGHHHH!!!


Kids hear about these things on the news and see that the person doing the shooting gets alot of attention, and he/she thinks....Hmmmm...I can get attention this way too, and repeats the act.

IMO, all these shootings shouldn't be broadcast as much as they are, it is just breeding copycats who are looking for attention. This really infuriates me.


I understand your point Blizzard, but I have to disagree. The media may be guilty of improper handling of some news stories, but they're not the ones to blame for the recent spate of school violence. IMO, it has more to do with the violence on television ALONG WITH parents' inability and/or refusal to instill social values in their kids.
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#13 Postby Cheesy_Poofs » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:32 pm

WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THESE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS/STABBINGS?!? :x First, the stabbing at a Texas school last week. Then a fatal shooting at Ballou High School in DC, also last week, and now this?!
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#14 Postby blizzard » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:39 pm

weatherluvr wrote:
blizzard wrote:
bfez1 wrote:What is heck is going on here in the US with all of these school shootings----UGHHHH!!!


Kids hear about these things on the news and see that the person doing the shooting gets alot of attention, and he/she thinks....Hmmmm...I can get attention this way too, and repeats the act.

IMO, all these shootings shouldn't be broadcast as much as they are, it is just breeding copycats who are looking for attention. This really infuriates me.


I understand your point Blizzard, but I have to disagree. The media may be guilty of improper handling of some news stories, but they're not the ones to blame for the recent spate of school violence. IMO, it has more to do with the violence on television ALONG WITH parents' inability and/or refusal to instill social values in their kids.


as much as I respect all opinions here. I have to definately disagree. How does violence on TV influence these actions? If these kids had not seen another kid get attention for shootings, how many of them would think about it on their own? I would bet not many, if any at all. Granted we disagree, but I still say that it IS the media's fault. Not that they shouldn't cover it, but they re-broadcast it hundreds of times. It is ridiculous.
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#15 Postby weatherluvr » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:32 pm

I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly. Are you saying that violence in schools should not be covered in the news? The coverage I've seen has not sensationalized it in the least. In fact, they've gone out of their way to show the personal heartbreak of the victims and their families, as well as showing that the perpetrator(s) getting tried as adults and getting life sentences. Also, the kids doing the shooting are often portrayed as outcasts, or as weaklings getting revenge on bullies.

As I said before, it really comes down to the family environment, and teaching the right and wrong way to handle life situations. Too often in this day and age, you have either a single parent trying to raise a family, or both parents working full-time jobs to support their families. There is not nearly enough time being spent with family activities, whether it's helping with homework or just sitting down and playing a game together.

I feel very fortunate that I have a job that allows me to spend at least some quality time with my kids, but more importantly, allows my wife to stay home with them. It's when kids are not properly supervised that they begin believing all the stuff they see on TV, and that violence is the ultimate problem-solver.

The media may sensationalize certain things like car chases, but they're not the ones to blame for this, IMO, with all due respect to your opinion.
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#16 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:11 pm

There is some degree of blame that should be placed on the media, but certainly not all of it. Parents, teachers, friends, bullies, drugs, and a wide spectrum of other factors play a part as well. (By drugs, I mean both legal and illegal. How come so many of the students involved in school shootings were already under a physician's care and taking antidepressants? Did they help?)

But you really can't deny that they sensationalize school shootings, can you? Of course, since most of the media is liberal, their main emphasize is to show us that "guns are bad. Guns kill. Parents shouldn't leave guns in the house. Parents shouldn't have guns." Then they bring on a panel of gun-control advocates to preach to parents about voting for those who support stricter gun laws.

However, they also sensationalize the violence and the killers. They do it by producing primetime specials that deal with the actions of the shooters, the timeline of their day, their writings, their websites, and a whole slew of other aspects of the crime and the criminals. They don't serve to glorify them, so to speak, but they do contribute to the infamousness of the act and the person.

People like Michael Moore don't help matters either. Ever see "Wag The Dog?"
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#17 Postby JCT777 » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:30 am

This is terrible. It seems to be almost a daily occurance that some typle of voilence in a school - resulting in serious injury or death - makes the news. Very, very sad. :(
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