Back from musical concert at school that the 4th, 5th and 6th graders performed for a packed auditorium. It was a lot of fun, and the kids did an amazing job - except the events of two days is still on my mind. As I watched the kids perform strings, bands, chorus and having fun at back of my mind I was all like jeez what if a disgrunted fuck pulled out a gun in this auditorium and started shooting?
The 6th graders performed “I want it that way” by Backstreet Boys as their final sayonara song of the night, and also the last song they’ll peform as elementary kids. It was a great performance, with kids really singing their hearts out while auditorium was clapping. Elementary school is really the age of innocence - middle school / high school is never going to be the same as elementary school. The general camaradarie between families and staff is so different. Some of lifelong friendships are formed here. How can someone be so sick and demented in their brains to intentionally kill such young kids? How is this even possible?
Sending your kids to public school has to be the biggest house of horrors that parents have to go through in this country. What a wretched fuck of a country this is.