Authorities: Student shoots self at Ohio middle school

[jpak]

Source: cincinnati.com

MASSILLON, Ohio — A school official in Ohio says a middle school student apparently shot himself after bringing a gun to school.

Police say Jackson Middle School, near Massillon, is on lockdown Tuesday and that the students and staff are safe.

The school official tells The Independent newspaper that the student is being treated at a hospital.

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Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/02/20/authorities-student-shoots-self-ohio-middle-school/354410002/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. As awful as that is,

at least he didn't shoot a bunch of other kids first.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Sad but I had the same thought.

[ffr]

3. Hormones. Being young. Trying to fit in. Teasing. Bullying. Any number of factors.

Pimples. Puberty.

The list goes on and on. Do we really want to add a gun to that mix? Well the NRA culture has.

#neveragain.

[Adrahil]

4. Suicide attempt? Or an accident with a gun brought to defend himself? NT

[durablend]

5. Why weren't the other students or the teachers armed?

Clearly this would've never happened!

[YOHABLO]

6. Middle School should be abolished. It's got to be the most horrible period of pre adult life.

[mopinko]

7. it could be a lot less traumatic if we listened to science.

sleep cycles of adolescents are well documented. they need more sleep than toddlers and their circadian clocks move toward going to sleep later and waking earlier.
all we have to do is change the times that kids go to school.
sleep deprivation is the most easily treated cause of depression and other mental and emotional problems. we could change it w the stroke of a pen.

but no....

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

8. I never quite understood that thinking-if as a young adult I got up later, I would then

stay up even later the next night ..... then later and later every night, until the point I was staying up all night and sleeping all day. I know this cos many years ago as an unemployed young adult thats exactly what happened !!! As an oldster now its a totally different problem - wake up early and cant get back to sleep. Just can't win.

[mopinko]

10. biology. well known. well documented.

and yeah, free running circadian clock is what you are talking about. treatable, and you usually outgrow it.
it nearly destroyed my son in high school. he had it very bad, it really sent him into a tail spin, trying to live on someone else's very unforgiving clock.

they could rerun 1st period classes at the end of the day, that costs a little, but would help a lot of kids w/o making every kid go to a different clock.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. I will say Middler Schoolers are pretty much unadulterated psychopaths.

It's after the innocence of elementary school, but before the high school period where they begin to show the nascent inklings of a conscience.

In between they're pretty much devoid of any sort empathy and slaves to consumerism.

[Guilded Lilly]

11. My kids went to this school...and up until this summer

when I moved to another city, I saw these middle school kids every day after school! Chances are when I talk to friends back there, I will know the family or even the 7th grader. I’ve been nauseous all day at work.

My kids are now teaching in other cities but every time these senseless acts of violence happen I go through a soul saddening fear...For the kids suffering through this trauma and fear for MY kids, who are the kind of teachers who would do anything to save their students.