Marjory Stoneman Douglas

least injured one, due to a firearm. In the “Timeline of School Shootings from 2016 to Present Day”, one incident was the Parkland Shooting: “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting: A 19-year old former student whose behavior had led to discipline issues, began shooting students and staff members with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after activating a fire alarm. 17 people were killed, and 14 others were injured…” (3). A semi-automatic gun is listed as an…

indoor version of the national walkout on March 14 in the Fitzkee Center at Red Lion Area Senior High School. Student and administrator planners of event scheduled the walkout will last 17 minutes, 1 minute for every life that was lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Red Lion is taking a different approach from other schools nationwide making the walk-out a walk-in. They fear that there could be an attack on those who leave the building, so instead Student Council…

Recently there was a mass shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were 17 people were killed and about 15 were wounded during the act. This terrorist act was done by a former student, Nikolas Cruz, who was even expelled a year before and had been under FBI watch (Pruet, 2018). With this sort of action it would have been best to give him the death penalty rather than only convicting him of a first degree murder and possibly ignore a death penalty because he was a…

Running head: OUR LIVES MATTER Caridad Pozo May 27, 2018 Professor Emily Smith-Miles Our Lives Matter Campaign Gun Violence and Mental Illness It is evident that there is a low connection between mental illness and gun control, and prevention measures should be put in place to reduce the increased mass shooting incidences. The efforts should work in conjunction with one another to provide a wide safety net. The third parties are the key individuals required to prevent mass shooting and…

chamber. My nine-year-old sisters biggest fear used to be getting coal in her stocking or not getting gushers in her lunch box, as it should be. Now she knows different; she knows gun fire. Her elementary school is located directly next to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where seventeen students were violently murdered by a mentally ill boy…

Students should most certainly not walk out of their classes in protest on March 14th. This protest, which has been named the March for Our Lives Protest, is scheduled to occur at 10:00 am on March 14th, 2018. The march is being organized by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, who have supposedly decided to take action against school shootings, which have become commonplace. Even though participating in this protest may seem like a great way to become an activist, there are several…

That’s what I mean when I say take care of Everglade’s; it is one of the largest remaining subtropical habits in North America. The everglades is often called “River of Grass” because the area has a largely river up to 60 miles wide. Marjory Stoneman Douglas aka “the lady of the Everglades” was the first person to recognize Everglade’s ecosystem and animals. She ended up writing five books about the Everglade’s. Airboats were a popular form of transportation in the Everglade’s they were built…

The Isabelle Robinson, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who is a survivor of Parkland Shooting express her disgusts like “a slap in the face” as people commented # WalkUpNotOut that if the kids were nicer to him, the shooting would never have occurred. To put a child in a place with…

Schools are supposed to be a safe environment for students all across America, however, that’s not the case. On February 14, 2018 the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas” school of Broward County suffered from a school shooting. The shooter was an nineteen year old kid with a semi-automatic AR-15. Nikolas Cruz murdered seventeen highschool students and three staff members. This incident was a devastating tragedy to Florida once again. Just a month and a half into the 2018 year it was already the…

I interview first grade teacher Glenda Pertierra. She has been teaching as a full-time teacher for over 22 years she is currently working at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Early Childhood Center. She has a Bachelor’s degree certified in Elementary 1-6, media specialist PK-12 and is ESOL endorsed. Mrs. Pertierra had been working with MDCPS since 1989but wasn’t a full-time teacher until 1994. She gave me her responses to some questions I found interesting and wanted more insight on. I first wanted to…