Source: China Daily Network China Daily Network, September 30th According to the website of the WITF Radio Station in Pennsylvania, a shooting occurred near Roxborough High School in Philadelphia on September 27th local time. Five students were shot, one of whom died of serious i

Source: China Daily Network

China Daily Network 9, September 30, According to the website of the WITF Radio Station in Pennsylvania, the United States, on September 27, local time, a shooting occurred near Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. Five students were shot, one of whom died of serious injuries. This has left teachers all over Philadelphia once again thinking about whether and how to help students deal with another incident of gun violence.

"Unfortunately, we have to deal with too many of these things in recent years," said Charlie McGeehan, a 12th-grade social sciences teacher. "It's like we're forming a particularly dark skill."

Police said on the 28th that they were searching for five gunmen who sneaked into a group of students participating in football at the time of the incident. 14-year-old student Nicholas Elizalde was killed and four more students were injured. For many, the most terrifying thing about this incident is that it happened at 4:30 pm and was in school.

McGihan said that for students, the idea that after-school space is always safe has been broken. “In the past, if you didn’t go out very late, you might be fine. That’s what they thought in the past, but it’s different now,” McGihan said. “The real feeling now is, ‘Where am I safe’ and ‘Where can I go?’” I’Lan Francis, a senior high school student, said people’s reactions are mainly frustrations of feeling unsafe about activities that were used to in the past. "Is it reasonable for children of our age to get guns?" she said. "Is it reasonable for innocent people to lose their lives for it?" Although Francis is still happy to participate in sports, he said he will not stay for a long time. "Leave as soon as it's over," she said. "There's no reason to stay." Stephen Flemming, a communications teacher at Francis, said that many students seemed calm when he discussed the topic of gun violence with his students. But he said: "(the students) lack of reaction and no longer shocked, which makes adults feel very upset...We don't want this to be normal."

McGihan said many of his students are at this stage and feel that nothing will change. "I'm just trying to think about how I can break through the status quo, or let them have different ideas, or maybe feel some hope," he said. "But I don't know, this is a difficult thing, it's difficult for me, and I think it's difficult for them."