Seven pupils and their principal have been killed after a teenager opened fire at a school in southern Finland, hours after a video was posted on YouTube predicting a massacre there.
This is a peaceful place, nothing like this has happened and nothing like this is to be expected either... Despite having the world's third-largest per capita handgun ownership, violent incidents are rare at Finnish schools.
According to Finnish media, there have been four stabbings at schools since 1999. None of these caused fatalities.
This is probably less violence than occurs in schools here in New Zealand and our schools are no where near as inclusive or involving of their pupils.
Finland has consistently had one of the better performing education systems of all OECD countries in respect to educational achievement ... there are more special education teachers for those low achievers than anywhere else, one third of pupils get one on one remedial instruction. ... teachers plan collegially, have regular times in each others classrooms ... all new teachers must have a masters degree.
So there is considerably 'less room' for isolatory behaviour and the necessary excessive preoccupations to develop and flourish sufficiently for such an event to occur ... not so here.
Update: School shooting: gunman dies.
A gunman who killed eight people in a school shooting in southern Finland and turned the gun on himself has died in hospital.
"He (the gunman) was moving systematically through the school hallways, knocking on the doors and shooting through the doors."
This is a peaceful place, nothing like this has happened and nothing like this is to be expected either... Despite having the world's third-largest per capita handgun ownership, violent incidents are rare at Finnish schools.
According to Finnish media, there have been four stabbings at schools since 1999. None of these caused fatalities.
This is probably less violence than occurs in schools here in New Zealand and our schools are no where near as inclusive or involving of their pupils.
Finland has consistently had one of the better performing education systems of all OECD countries in respect to educational achievement ... there are more special education teachers for those low achievers than anywhere else, one third of pupils get one on one remedial instruction. ... teachers plan collegially, have regular times in each others classrooms ... all new teachers must have a masters degree.
So there is considerably 'less room' for isolatory behaviour and the necessary excessive preoccupations to develop and flourish sufficiently for such an event to occur ... not so here.
Update: School shooting: gunman dies.
A gunman who killed eight people in a school shooting in southern Finland and turned the gun on himself has died in hospital.
"He (the gunman) was moving systematically through the school hallways, knocking on the doors and shooting through the doors."
An American infection, an expression of disassociation or the elitist notions expressed?
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