Mad, Mad, Mad World
This month has been a horrific one for educators. I know the phrase "In like a lion, out like a lamb" typically describes the weather in March, but I'm hoping it applies to the 2018 calendar year. So far this year, there have been 18 instances of guns being discharged either in schools or on school property. Since I personally had only heard of what has been the worst this year, the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I decided to look a little more at what qualified as a school shooting since I hadn't heard about the others and found this article on Snopes. But I digress. I am not here to say what "counts." Everything should count. Anytime someone loses his or her life, it should "count." There are more than 17 people who did not return to school today. There are kids who will never return to that building. There are teachers who will probably leave the profession. The shooter took more than 17 lives: he took aw