RE: The Real Reason Why School Shootings Happen
I think you're right that fatherlessness is a factor. I was probably overly-simplistic in writing this post because I was really trying to drive home the point that I think suicide rates, drug overdose rates, and school shooting statistics in the US are connected, and all are surging because of the way children are treated in our society. Primarily, that treatment occurs in schools since primarily, schoolchildren spend most of their waking time at school and much less time at home or with their families. However, it does have a lot to do with what goes on at home, and fatherlessness has a part to play in that.
There's no evidence to connect school shootings and school conditions.
But there is. All of the mass school shootings on U.S. soil in the past two decades have been at public schools. Not private schools, not homeschools, not charter schools. Public schools.
Could this be due to the security factors, though? Charter schools are more likely to have advanced security systems.
I highly doubt this. Most schools with advanced security systems are those with huge student populations, and most charter schools have smaller student populations. I think public schools win the school security race by far.
That's interesting and a fair point. I would assume that charter schools have more resources available to them, but perhaps they don't.