(Poster from view of my window)
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(Poster reads SCHOOLS ARE NOT WARZONES)
So for my poster I chose for it to read, "Schools are not warzones." As someone who wants to be a teacher it is very scary knowing that we have this huge issue with school shootings but yet nothing has been done to fix it. Since the school shooting referred to as Columbine in 1999 there have been 417 shootings and over 300,000 children have lost their lives due to gun violence. I believe that bigger guns such as AR's have no business being as attainable as they are today. So I posted my poster up in my window which happens to be on the same street as an elementary school. On friday I was walking to my car and a parent actually pointed and gave me a thumbs up as they were driving by.
“More than 383,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine. There have been 417 school shootings since 1999.”
This topic just angers me so much because I feel like since it’s been 25 years there should be some type of change and there hasn’t. Nothing has changed. Teachers shouldn’t have to worry about that.
Washington Post,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/
“If we look at the means of responses students offered for each of 16 reasons, we get a similar picture. The top four reasons were:
- Other kids pick on them, make fun of them or bully them.
- They want to get back at people who have hurt them.
- They don't value life.
- They have been a victim of physical abuse at home.”
So this university did a study with their students and asked what they thought the reason people needed to shoot a school up was. And that was their response. Bullying these days is so much more due to social media and social life. The top issues reflect the shooter feeling a certain way and acting on its emotions in a physical way.
Alfred University, https://www.alfred.edu/about/news/studies/lethal-school-violence/why-do-shootings.cfm
Readings due 9/25
On pg 29 activism art effect verse affect. "The goal of activism is action to generate effect." I really like how they worded this in the book, The section talks about how good art has some kind of mean but really art art has meaning. Some are just more obvious than other art is. Activism art has a different usual deeper meaning than other art does.
On pg 44-45 "Political art tends to be socially concerned and activist art tends to be socially involved." After watching the debate videos and clips it was very clear that political art is very social, the memes and clips that get sent around and spread quickly. Verse something needing more of a social involvement are very different from each other but still find ways to get their points across.
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