How about we start small with parenting

Barring physically intervening and restraining a person who wants to die, you are right on Saw. Though I do believe we can get much better at preventing psychotic people from inflicting mass casualties. Like killing them first!

Argyle is a step in the right direction. But those folks carrying must train constantly to be proficient in a deadly situation. [i][/i]

My idea would be a next step in further hardening the security of our schools, as I stated above. After that's taken care of, we can begin to address mental health of students (and parents) if needed. Social media footprints of anyone that's a concern must be monitored and kids have to get more serious about ratting out a classmate of concern. In ALL of the school shootings I can recall of late, there have been digital footprints that Ray Charles could follow. How this isn't getting the attention it REQUIRES can only be due to privacy laws and/or schools afraid to report for fear of lost funding.

CPS visits the home and the parents. Mental health professionals evaluate the kid(s) and parents if need be recommend a next course of action, if any.

Kids deemed a threat to themselves or society go to a secure mental health facility.

Give the parents back the right to discipline their kids and hold both parents accountable if the kid does something like that.

Let the school district get its own police authority, hire and train armed guards, will work out if the guards aren't afraid to go after the shooter.

I would never want to be a police officer but I�d gladly help protect a school. Where do I sign up?

1. Bring back physical discipline in schools
Children are growing up without a healthy sense of fear. They think they can hire a lawyer and sue anyone that physically reprimands them
Human beings (the vast majority of them, even children) know right from wrong. For many, just knowing is enough for them to play with others well. Some need the deterrent of fear of physical punishment

2. Go back to books and get rid of google classroom Ban iPhones and iPads in schools until 11th and 12th grade
Children aren�t learning the most important skills these days�interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication teaches respect for others, compromise, and success and/or failure as a team, as a communal person (part of a greater good). Doing what is best for the group takes priority over what is best for the individual (this goes back to the ridiculous concept of supreme individual liberty/power that is reinforced by our legal culture). Interpersonal communication teaches responsibility, reliability, and culpability; you are only as good as your word

Slap a bully down. HS is a meat grinder. Everyone wants to be at the cool kids table. The Cool kids didn't put up with Bullies back in the day.

THIS...^^^^^. Arm more teachers and administrators, stop advertising schools as gun free zones. Makes them a soft target for these punks and cowards

Word. That�s where my twins will be starting school in the fall.

Okay, just to play Devil's Advocate on this line of thinking....

Say I am the student from today's shooting. Been going to this school for 3 or 4 years I know the teachers. I know that there are 2 armed security guards on duty (as there were today) Know which other teachers or staff are armed or might be. I'm suicidal, but determined to pay back those bullies before I off myself. So I get my dad's guns, go into class, and when the teacher isn't looking, I pull out my gun and take out the teacher first. Cool, now I have an extra gun.....

More guns in school doesn't address why the student took the gun to school in the first place. Do we really need to turn back to the Wild Wild West?

Argyle has kids with two parents that care about them. The whole problem IMHO starts at home. Just my opinion, Argyle will not have problems that a Ft. Worth, Crowley or Everman school may have.

This
Will not stop it, but it wouldn't hurt. These socially inept kids get off on seeing themselves on tv and in the newspaper. Looks to me they should be denied the publicity. No name, description, picture...nothing.

He is right. Prayers up to the families involved.

Higher Taxes? Football coaches make over $100K per year in High School.

Yes and we build multi-million dollar stadiums. It's priorities.