Let’s NEVER Bring Kids Back to School

Before schools closed in March of 2020 there were six school shootings, which is pretty average for three months in the United States. Prior to that, since 2020, over 200 kids have been killed in school, and hundreds wounded, terrified and traumatized every single year . In 2020, so far only four students have been killed in schools, probably because school buildings have been empty since March.

It’s both compelling and tragic that the pandemic may be keeping our kids safer by padlocking the buildings we allow them to inhabit nine months a year. In a country unable to regulate the sale or use of weapons of war, closing schools may be the only solution to protecting our children. I’m all for it. Clearly, we are impotent to stop school shootings, so let’s take away the targets. We don’t have a functional government or anything close to leadership so outlawing automatic weapons, for instance, is simply never going to happen in this country. Never. Guns are so deeply embedded in the culture of the U.S.A. that military-grade weapons will always be readily available to any unstable person of any age. There are only so many battles we can rage as citizens and we should probably forget about regulating guns. Game over, they win.

But we can keep kids out of school buildings and this should make them statistically safer than when thousands of children flood these sites five days a week for most of the year. While parents truly suffer the effects of school closures, the lack of gun violence is a positive side effect of keeping our…