As I mentioned in the previous blog post, I conducted a survey over Facebook to get some opinions from my peers and mentors as to their thoughts on whether or not teachers should be carrying guns at school. I got plenty of feedback on their opinions as well as witnessed some crazy mob mentality that was social media based.
For the first few comments, everyone was calm and shared their opinions- either yes or no for teachers carrying guns- and why they thought this. The problem came once a specific teacher got on and said that she wascarrying her gun at school. A different friend replied to the teacher's comment and said something along the lines of "as long as there are extreme tests taking place, I [the friend] think that teachers should definitely be allowed to carry guns at school". The teacher explained that she most definitely had taken an assortment and abundance of tests to get her concealed weapons permit as well as informed her principal that she was carrying a weapon and had done all the necessary work to get it approved with the principal and the school.
Next came an extremely out-there back and forth between the student and the teacher, to which a separate friend- a cousin, if that means anything- told the two of them "Hey losers, she said no fighting. So give her an answer and shut up."
Needless to say that this comment sparked a Facebook fire like none I have ever seen. The teacher respectfully apologized and repeated her answer, but the friend couldn't let the subject drop. He started calling names and calling her out on simple things as he inferred things from her comments. She was not any better, returning his rude comments with snide and sometimes passive aggressive comments of her own. A second fight broke out between two other students that, though not as extreme as the first fight, still compelled me to delete the post all together.
Seconds after the post was deleted, I got a message from my cousin that said "Hey, I wasn't done with him!" This only made me feel better about my decision to delete the post. I managed to talk my cousin down and thank her for her input. A few minutes after that, an aunt texted me to ask where the post went. I explained it to her and she replied with, "Oh, yeah. It's probably good you deleted it, although it was pretty funny."
While this is not exact research, this is just one example of how students are generally more hot-headed than adults, but adults do not always act like adults should anyways. Each generation is also subject to the mob mentality and the false protection of saying whatever they please with no consequences on social media. The fact of the matter is that the problem is much more prominent in high schools. Each and every day there are students being bullied in and outside of school. Much of this takes place over social media and the schools- at least the ones that I have looked at- have made it a point to do all in their power to decrease their bullying levels and make students aware of the repercussions bullying has.
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