Key To School Tragedies Family & Community?

Former Sec of Education & Bush Drug Czar, Bill Bennett, couldn’t have been more on target in wake of the Texas school shooting tragedy: Parents Need To Parent … all folks need to be their brother’s keeper …

Speaking to Fox News, Bennett had begun by observing that the gunmen in the Uvalde (and other) school shootings “tend to come from dysfunctional” backgrounds. He quoted colleague Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said years ago: “The biggest change … all over Europe and North America” is seen in “the decline of the family.” Boys especially need a father, he said. “You can’t raise boys without men.”

A decline in personal responsibility is also at the root of many such tragedies, Mr. Bennett said. Deliberately “look the other way, don’t get involved, don’t get in trouble, you’ll have to go to court, you can get sued, and so on – so, people look the other way.” That mentality, he warned, is largely traceable to progressive bureaucracies, especially in today’s public schools. “If you go to someone and say, ‘I think this is a troubled child,’ [too often] they’ll say, ‘You need to see someone in the intervention department.’ The intervention department will then send you to the counseling department [and] the counseling department will send you to the truancy department, and they, in turn, will send you to the police.” Besides resurrecting the family, then, might we also need to recommit to being “Our Brother’s Keeper”?

Davd Soul