RE: The Real Reason Why School Shootings Happen
WRONG!
The real reason is fatherlessness. Of all the school shooters in recent times, most have been fatherless. You can't comment that school making people "want to die" is the reason there are shooters because there's no evidence to connect school shootings and school conditions.
There is clear evidence that fatherlessness and school shootings/other violent crimes are linked. Charles Manson, for instance, was a very evil man and was fatherless. Inner city black gang violence occurs with almost exclusively fatherless young black men.
There is a problem with schooling. Education doesn't need to last nearly 20 years. Standardised testing is terrible. The education system is controlled by the government to brainwash children to think a certain way. But these problems have no clear link to violence.
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.
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.