After the Sandy Hook faculty taking pictures in 2012 didn’t push legislators to take motion to assist forestall faculty shootings, there was a way in America that these tragic occasions have turn out to be normalized. Worse, there’s a sense that far too many individuals appear to imagine that weapons are extra necessary than kids.
The 2021-2022 faculty 12 months got here to an finish with the taking pictures at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, the place 21 folks have been murdered by a gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle. The sound of the college bell ringing once more for the 2022-2023 12 months fills many mother and father with a way of dread that their youngsters might be subsequent.
Cassie Arnold, a mom and humanities educator who lives in Texas, created a chilling reminder of the hazard our youngsters face in faculties by sending her daughter to first grade in a gown sewn along with Kevlar.
Kevlar is the fabric used to create bulletproof vests.
“My daughter was in kindergarten final 12 months and he or she knew that her place in ‘lockdown drills’ was by the bathroom within the classroom lavatory, and that she needed to wait until the directors banged on the doorways, and that she needed to be quiet,” Arnold instructed Yahoo Life. “She wasn’t fazed by it. She was identical to, effectively, that is what we do.”
The miserable factor is that there are millions of youngsters like Arnold’s daughter who’ve lived their total lives beneath the specter of lethal violence of their faculties.
Arnold’s hope is that the gown will encourage others to push again in opposition to the notion that there’s nothing that may be performed and we have to reside with the menace.
“The most important hope is that we are able to maintain the dialog going,” Arnold instructed Yahoo Life. “The gown can create a dialog—not only a nonpartisan dialog—and permit us to come back to an equal enjoying subject. We have to defend our infants.”
The piece can also be noteworthy as a result of as an alternative of being partisan fingerpointing it asks for folks to take a seat down and speak about what’s taking place.
Arnold hoped that her piece could be satirical however, in reality, it precisely depicts actuality in Texas. In her Instagram publish, she factors out that Texas seems to be to spend tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on bulletproof police shields and limitations in lecture rooms. Whereas assault weapons are available, the state’s efforts are clearly centered round stopping bullets from hitting folks moderately than stopping them from being fired within the first place.
“[The dress] was initially designed to be satirical, to be a extra excessive response to those tragedies. However, the true responses from a few of our leaders have been too shut for consolation,” Arnold wrote on Instagram.
The dialog surrounding faculty shootings in America has been cyclical. A tragedy occurs, loads of issues are mentioned, however finally no substantial actions are taken by our leaders. Congress did just lately cross the first gun management invoice in many years within the wake of the Uvalde faculty taking pictures, however it took bloodbath after bloodbath to get to that bipartisan deal. Arnold’s piece is thought-provoking as a result of it will get forward of the cycle and begs for the dialog to proceed earlier than the subsequent taking pictures. It additionally asks us to rethink the concept that the shootings are a traditional a part of life in America.
“The timing is intentional,” Arnold wrote on Instagram. “College is beginning and the elections in November are coming. It’s time to strain those that have the company to create modifications to take action.”
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