Never did I say anything like that. All I said was that new students likely wouldn't know what happened unless told and/or they saw a memorial.LegendaryVKickr said:That's why everybody forgot about Columbine, right?soren7550 said:http://news.yahoo.com/newtown-votes-demolish-sandy-hook-school-155625493.html
New students likely won't know what happened there to make the town want to tear the place down, unless told and/or they see a big memorial there. So what's the point? Remodel if you must, but tearing down the place and putting up something new won't change things.
I don't think anybody's trying to change anything. I think it's about the children, who are traumatized from exposed to a horrific incident. Nobody wants to come back to the classroom and think "that's where my sister was shot".
No amount of remodeling is going to make anybody want to go back into that school. And it's expensive, yes. I'm sure there's been countless donations and charity drives that are going to help balance the expenses out a bit.
With places like Columbine, and Virginia Tech, the students will be at an age where they can and possibly will look up information on the place, and find out about the shootings. And yet those schools haven't been razed to the ground, they eventually kept on keeping on as usual. Whereas with Sandy Hook, the kids that's go there likely would never look up information on the place due to their age, and not caring because they're seven. Their biggest concerns are Ben 10 (or whatever show kids watch these day), and trying to have ice cream and candy for dinner. They'd probably only care if someone told them. And if someone is going around telling little kids about places where a bunch of kids their age died, then there's some bigger problems about.
But let's say they don't build a new school, they keep using the old one and it reopens next school year. The newest students will be five, meaning that they would have been three when the shootings happened. And the only way that they'd know what happened there was if someone told them. Because they're five, they probably can't read, and even if they could, they wouldn't be bothered to look up information on their school because they don't care BECAUSE THEY'RE FIVE. The only reason they wouldn't want to go there is because school is dumb and smelly.
People likely won't forget the shooting that happened there for a long time. But just let the older people worry about bad things like that. Don't go worrying little kids about it though. Beating the fact that the world can be a very horrible place over their heads will certainly make them not want to go to the school, or anywhere.
Shit, little kids now a days don't even know about 9/11, and that was something that effected the whole nation. They only know about it because eventually they're going to see something about it on TV when that time of year rolls about again. And even then, they'll only know the barest bones about what happened and why, because most people have enough common sense to not go scaring kids with stuff like that.
If you were a student that was there when the shootings happened, and you don't want to go there anymore, fine.