How does school shootings affect the students?

Question

How does school shootings affect the students?

Answer 1

Unlike movies or entertainment programs, news is real. But depending on a child's age or maturity level, he or she may not yet understand the distinctions between fact and fantasy. By the time kids reach 7 or 8, however, what they watch on TV can seem all too real. For some youngsters, the vividness of a sensational news story can be internalized and transformed into something that might happen to them. A child watching a news story about a school shooting might worry, "Could I be next? Could that happen to me?" TV has the effect of shrinking the world and bringing it into our living rooms.

By concentrating on violent stories, TV news can also promote a "mean-world" syndrome that can give kids a misrepresentation of what the world and society are actually like.

Answer 2

Even the high school students are still considered children.  I don't think children quite know how to process feelings that a school shooting would leave them with.  I think they just know how fearful they are and that fear rears its ugly head for a very long time.  I have three youngs kids and knowing what they are facing in the years ahead compared to what I experienced as a student is tragic.  I just hope and pray that they get through it without incident.

Answer 3

It makes them wish they could carry a weapon for protection against violent criminals.