School Shootings: A Documentative Analysis

Tragedies such as school shootings effect many people. Between families, the school districts, and the community, people are more concerned than they have ever been about safety in schools. According to an article from Tampa Bay Times, “at least 74 school shootings had occurred since December 2012.” With that number still growing; written by Bangor Daily News, who reported that since January 2013 there has been, “143 school shootings…which is an average of one a week since Sandy Hook.” This has put many people on the hot seat for coming up with a good solution for how to protect students. Those people in the hot seat are political leaders, school board members, and security companies, to come up with the best solution to keep children safe. School shootings are not a new concept. Documented by Chambersburg Public Opinion, America’s first school massacre …show more content…
At this point this is when board members, the community, and the political leaders all spoke up on their idea how to prevent this type of thing from happening in the future. This is considered to be the “Ideation” and “Prototype” phase of systems thinking. During these phases of solving a problem as large as this one leaders would have to talk to the community to brainstorm how they wanted to see things fixed. Such as adding cameras, monitoring systems, and metal detectors to the buildings. Those leaders had to work with other companies and people to create prototypes to fix the problem. In the case of Sandy Hook, the ideation and prototype stages were done by city leaders, school board, and the community. Speaking to each one about ways they believe things could have happened differently. The prototype would be blueprints and plans to better enhance their old school building to prevent an event such as this again. Those ideas are then put out and decided on which is the next part of systems