Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Another shooting at school

First day!  Not what we expect to hear, that a teenager brings a gun to school and a bottle of vodka and opens fire in the school cafeteria.

But it is happening, and it did happen in Perry Hall, Maryland.


Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. was being held without bail on charges of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault, Baltimore County police said. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 7. The state's attorney's office did not know if he had a lawyer.Gladden's last status update on his Facebook page, posted the morning of the shooting, read: "First day of school, last day of my life. ... f--- the world."

What can we do about it?  The young man had warned his friends on Facebook, and yet, nobody called his parents.  Not one "friend" stopped him from his rampage.  His father tells us that he was bullied.

Anti-bullying workshops are popping up everywhere, but clearly are not universal.  Nor are psycho-educational efforts like those that Relationship-Wise, Inc. puts out, School Wise division.  We're hoping to see more of these, and less violence.

Linda Freedman

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