Everyone should be able to feel safe

Yesterday was an interesting day, but the night before yesterday was when it all started. Tuesday night, my family received a call from our principal saying, our school has received a threat and there would be extra security present for the remainder of the week. The rumor or word on the street was that a former student of Kennedy, wanted to come into the school with a gun and “shoot up the school”. Luckily for our sake this was reported by students who were with this former student and the school and police were ready to handle this situation and protect our school.

Fortunately for us, nothing happened and the school day preceded as normal, besides the fact that there were extra officers and authority figures around, as well as many students stayed home for school in fear yesterday. However, today school seems to be running as usual. There are still a few officers around but everything seems to be okay.

Unfortunately for a school in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, those students weren’t as lucky. They did not receive a call two nights ago about a threat. In this school, sixteen year old Alex Hribal was walking down the hallway at his school when he stabbed twenty one people. Can you even imagine walking down the hallway and having someone stab you out of nowhere? Especially at your school where you are supposed to be safe? This is mind blowing to think about.

How is a sixteen year old even capable of stabbing his peers? Why would he want to? Reports say that Alex Hribal was a very nice kid and had a few friends and was quiet before the incident yesterday at Franklin Regional Senior High School.

Alex Hribal is being charged with 21 counts of aggravated assault in adult court.

This is according to an article that can be found here:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/

According this article, almost all of the wounded students from Franklin Regional Senior High School didn’t even notice someone coming at them.

But Alex Hribal was coming at them with two kitchen knives. The report states that right now the motive is unknown as well as who was targeted.

A victim of this horrific school stabbing, says he remembers a kid run past him and then he was stabbed in the back. He thought he wasn’t going to leave the school alive.

This takes me back to the threat on my own school yesterday, why do people have to ruin the safe environments of schools? Why can’t we just leave that alone, so everyone feels safe at school?

These kids that want to hurt others need to get help. Everyone should be able to feel safe.