Well it seems we all do not want to talk about the elephant in the room, so I will start.
The shooting with a pellet gun at Aboriginal Choice school was surprising, and as I have a child in Ron Brent not even four blocks away, I have been more than a little interested in this story. I hear that we are respecting the child's privacy, and seeing as we don't know if she brought a gun to school and put it to another child's head and pulled the trigger because she was mad or "just joking," we as the public don't get to know what her punishment is.
This whole scenario is ridiculous. First off sticking a gun to another person's head and pulling the trigger is not a joke, she did it maliciously and that's the only way that it could have been done. And since she can obviously not be trusted to come to school without the rest of our children being at risk she should be expelled period.
Every child has a right to attend school, but when you jeopardize that safety of other students you no longer have that right. If we do not have a strict policy, what stops this from happening again? We have to make a choice that this is not going to happen in our schools and we will not tolerate it at all.
I worry for the students and teachers of that school, and hope the new principal will make the right decision for the rest of the students of this school and expel the student responsible for the remainder of the year.
We can not give one student rights over and above the safety of all the others.
I do not feel that we all have the right to know who she is, but we have a right to know if she will continue to go to Aboriginal Choice or if she will be transferred to another school. And if she is transferred, the parents of that school have a right to know that she is attending. I, as a parent, have the right to know if my child is in danger, when he is attending school.
Dianna Higginsond
Prince George
