School Shootings
One of the most prominent problems facing our schools, clubs, teams, and classmates is school shootings. School shootings affect students, teachers, parents, and many kids. They can result in PTSD, survivor’s guilt, anxiety, chronic psychiatric disorders, according to Reid Moley and NPR. It can have profound effects on schoolwork and social relationships. Mental health is a big issue that is involved in school shootings, as well as fights, bullying, depression, abuse at home, and paranoia. A solution to school shootings could be to start an app that can give you mental advice or an elective at school to learn about mental issues and meet new students. Then I would have some different programs to create a loving, positive, and safe environment. Gun control or arming the staff may help with temporary problems but you need to focus on the student’s health. The 4-Way Test is, Is it the truth, Is it fair to all concerned, will it build goodwill and better friendships, and will it be beneficial to all concerned. All of these can help to create a convenient and useful solution to the issue of school shootings and school shooters.
The first part of using this solution is finding out if it is truthful and important to society or kids. This is important since, without mental help for students, many kids could be going through depression, anxiety, and abuse at home. Then they may decide to take out their stress and anger out on students at school or teachers. The solution is truthful because it can provide help and new friends to students who are going through a tough time or thinking of shooting up a school. The second part of using this solution is, Is it fair to all concerned, and in my solution, it is fair to all concerned. It’s fair because everyone in the situation is positively affected. The kids get help for their mental issues, the students stay safe in school, and the school staff understand the issues happening with the teens. The solution of having an elective or having an app that can provide guidance is easy to execute and very helpful, the elective is helpful in school and the app can correct matters out of school. One other way that supports my resolution is it builds goodwill and friendships within the teachers, students, and parents. The defendant in the Parkland, Florida, shooting last year said that he lost his mom to the flu and his adopted father died when he was very little. So this shows that if he had better friendships with students around him then he wouldn’t have any motivation to kill people, as well as the fact that he would be happier with more friends to talk or hang out with.
The final way to support my resolution is will it be beneficial to all concerned. In my way to fix it, it will be helpful to all concerned because every kid that needs help will get it. Van Dreal studies say, “A lot of these people have felt excluded, socially left out or rejected.” The kids that normally shoot up schools or think of shooting them up have many mental issues as well as the fact that nobody took the time or effort to try to help them. Those people must feel helpless and like no one cares about them and that needs to change. With my strategy, people will feel important, make new friends, and overall get help.