School shooting-- at my high school

[MouseWife]

These school shootings are freaky, especially since kids have to go to school. Okay, there is homeschooling but that isn't always do able.

I have two shooting connections {of sorts, nothing like yours}.

The first one, the one the Boomtown Rats made 'I Don't Like Mondays' about. My sis went to school with the girl, Brenda Spenser {Spencer?} but she moved to another area where she went on her rampage. That was many many years ago. {not sure if it was the first school shooting?}

Secondly, and oddly I think P.O.D. is said to have made a song about this one as it is local {but, I think the timing is wrong}, a shooting at the Santee High school. A young relative of ours went there and was there in the courtyard {open area} of the school when it happened. I can't clearly remember what happened to her so I won't speculate but I do believe the person next to her was shot, a friend of hers was shot in the leg.

I am so saddened by this sort of acting out. Why do children get to this point? It can't just be video games, as some would suggest. Or music. It has to be something missing in thier lives? I don't know. But, it is scary sending your kids off to school and never knowing if someone elses' 'bad day' is going to affect your child.