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Title : Letter to the Editor: Gun violence prevention: Educational leaders should lead to save lives
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Letter to the Editor: Gun violence prevention: Educational leaders should lead to save lives
To the Editor:
Another school shooting. More students and staff dead, or injured and traumatized for a lifetime.
In its recent response to community concern regarding gun violence, the Shoreline School Board and District leadership stated “our young leaders… will undoubtedly lead us all to a brighter future.”
Respectfully, it’s tough to envision a brighter future – much less lead the way to it – when you’re faced with the possibility that your school might be the next to “win” the school shooting lottery. It probably feels futile to protest when the adults are telling you that it’s more important to maintain the “precedent we have set as a non-partisan body that is solely focused on the aspects of education and school safety under our purview that we are able to implement and influence.”
In other words, the adults in power are saying: “we are unwilling to take a stand for fear we might offend a gun rights extremist.” These educational leaders are leaving it to students not yet old enough to vote to effect changes that could save lives from gun violence.
Saving lives is not a partisan issue. Our community must make choices about how we address access to guns and a culture of fear and despair and violence so pervasive that it has spawned an epidemic of mass shootings and suicide by firearm.
The leadership of Shoreline Schools – together with local elected officials – must stop leading from the rear. Step into your role to bring the community together around a public health issue that affects all of us, but our students most critically. Use your influence to communicate actively. Work with stakeholders to find and recommend to our politicians gun violence prevention measures that are inclusive and transformative and effective over the long term. Teach our students accountability by example.
Sue Whitcomb
Lake Forest Park
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