#SchoolShootingSurvivors: What Happens to Kids After a School Shooting? 🏫🔫
The aftermath of a school shooting is a tragic and devastating time for everyone involved, especially the surviving children who have experienced such a traumatic event. The impact of a school shooting on the survivors, both physically and emotionally, can be long-lasting and require a comprehensive response from parents, educators, and mental health professionals. In this article, we will explore what happens to the kids who are still alive after a school shooting, and how they can be supported in their recovery journey.
Understanding the Impact of a School Shooting on Surviving Kids
The trauma of a school shooting can have a profound impact on the mental and emotional well-being of the surviving children. They may experience a range of reactions, including fear, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is crucial to recognize the signs of trauma in these children and provide the necessary support and resources to help them cope and heal.
Immediate Response and Support for Surviving Children
In the immediate aftermath of a school shooting, it is essential to provide the surviving children with immediate support and resources to address their physical and emotional needs. This may include:
1. Crisis intervention and counseling services
2. Medical care and treatment for any physical injuries
3. Safe and supportive environments for the children to process their emotions
4. Communication with parents and guardians to keep them informed and involved in their child’s recovery
Long-Term Support and Recovery Services for Surviving Children
The impact of a school shooting on surviving children can extend far beyond the immediate aftermath, requiring long-term support and intervention to address their ongoing needs. This may include:
1. Ongoing counseling and mental health services to address trauma-related symptoms
2. Support and resources for parents and guardians to help them support their child’s recovery
3. School-based interventions to create a safe and supportive environment for the children to return to
4. Community-based support services to connect survivors with resources and assistance
Addressing the Unique Needs of School Shooting Survivors
School shooting survivors have unique needs that require a tailored and comprehensive response from parents, educators, and mental health professionals. It is essential to address the specific challenges that these children may face in the aftermath of a shooting, including:
1. Grief and loss related to the death of classmates, teachers, or other staff members
2. Fear and anxiety related to returning to the school environment
3. Ongoing support for coping with trauma-related symptoms and emotions
4. Building resilience and coping skills to help them navigate the challenges of recovery
Creating a Safe and Supportive School Environment for Surviving Children
The school environment plays a crucial role in the recovery of surviving children after a school shooting. Educators and school staff can create a safe and supportive environment for the children by:
1. Implementing trauma-informed practices and policies to address the unique needs of survivors
2. Providing ongoing support and resources for students and families to navigate the challenges of recovery
3. Fostering a sense of community and solidarity to help survivors feel connected and supported
4. Collaboration with mental health professionals and community organizations to provide comprehensive support for survivors
In conclusion, the impact of a school shooting on surviving children is significant and requires a comprehensive and tailored response to address their physical and emotional needs. By providing immediate and long-term support and creating a safe and supportive school environment, we can help these children navigate the challenges of recovery and heal from the trauma of the shooting. It is essential to recognize the unique needs of school shooting survivors and provide them with the necessary resources and support to help them on their journey to recovery.
A lot of therapy.
Usually they bring in some grief counselors for a while and that’s it.
There is no one response. It would depend on the circumstances and local parents/school officials decisions.
They go back to school.
They change homerooms and get pizza squares on Tuesdays
therapy, lots of therapy.
Either another teacher or eventually the police will get to them and the kids get reunited with their parent or guardian
Then they are gonna need a lot of therapy
They don’t need to get back to school immediately, they get some time off, but eventually they have to go back to school and move on
They prepare for the next one. /s
Seriously- a lot of therapy and counseling. That would make for a good documentary
Therapy, change carpet , bunch of gun talk , school resumes
The NRA sends their thoughts and prayers and then forget about the survivors who have lots of counselling in front of them.
Republicans send thoughts and prayers, because this is not the time to talk about gun control. Then Alex Jones calls them all liars and crisis actors.
They suffer from PTSD for the rest of their lives.
When I was in high school we had a gang related drive by outside our cafeteria. They just sent us all back to class
Alex Jones comes for them.
A lifetime of trauma.
I went to college with a kid who was in Columbine when their shooting happened. He didn’t last to the end of the first semester. It didn’t help that 2 weeks after classes started we were all on the roof of the dorm watching the twin towers crumble.
First, the school is swarmed with cops. So it’s not really a concern of having a bunch of scared 9 yearolds without an adult…there are plenty of adults. The cops swarm the school and check every inch to ensure there isn’t another shooter somewhere in the building, or a bomb or anything like that.
But first of all it’s a crime scene, and second of all you don’t want kids sitting next to a dead body. So they’re brought to other class rooms or the gym, depending on which makes more sense for the kids. At the same time, roll call is being taken (probably every 5-10 minutes) and the parents are informed to come pick up their alive, healthy kids. They probably also call the buses in but it’s not the kind of thing you can just snap your fingers and have ready… a lot of the time the buses are out on some other route with a bunch of kids. 2-3 hours, buses arrive to take a lot of kids home.
You can’t just skip school the next day, as hundreds of parents rely on school for a place to keep their kids during the work day, and for food. So they have to offer some version of class but I imagine all schools make it optional for several days, and the kids that do attend are mostly kept busy with light hearted activities.
In terms of now needing a new teacher, that’s actually semi-common. There are hundreds of thousands of teachers in the world, that means that many die. So they do whatever their protocol is, probably a temp sub until a long term sub is picked in the following weeks.
They either receive enough therapy to “heal” or commit suicide. This kind of traumatic experiences should be prevented at any cost.
I feel like I read somewhere that they were considering demolishing Sandy Hook, or one of the other schools where there was a shooting. People, and especially young children, would understandably feel uneasy going back to the same school.
School district, with federal funding because yes there is a grant for remodeling after a mass shooting, remodels the building where there were bullet holes and bodily fluids.
[Link](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/31/us/schools-after-mass-shootings-uvalde-texas/index.html) for depressing source on what has happened to the buildings of the most covered school shootings.
The next shooter gets their chance. We don’t do shit about it in this country, because the NRA owns almost all of our politicians.
More “active shooter” drills. Sickening that kids have to go through any of this
We tell them to get over it and march them back into school, and then pretend to be shocked when they grow up to hate and distrust the power structure that did this to them.
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
Most schools provide grief therapy consoling but most do not take it.
My generation was pretty lucky to only have a few kids die of drunk driving shortly after education. (not sure how they got the liquor as they were 18 at the time. An adult probably got it for them or their parents had it all over the house.) We had one individual in our group of friends (i hardly knew) get killed on the way to school due to poorly lit roads and the driver was doing 60 in a 40. My gradating class was lucky not to have to endure anything like your topic.
My cousin refuses to send her kids to public school for this reason. She is paranoid and refuses to have that phone call about what your topic is. And I don’t blame her. She home schools them.
You put a rose on the empty desk(s) and you keep a rose on their desk(s) until the end of the semester and then when everyone returns for the next semester the rose is gone and it goes back to relative “business as usual”. And then there’s a special page in the yearbook.
Besides therapy, some get death threats from the conspiracy nutjobs accusing them of being deep state actors.
They are filled with thoughts and prayers and recover instantly from the traumatic event. Then they pick themselves up by the bootstraps and carry on. Just like it says in the Bible.
my friends were out of school for maybe a few months, went back with some bullshit assemblies and therapy dogs, got a bunch of donations, and then no one ever talked about it again. the lack of empathy for these kids is absurd.
Not quite the same but after the wildfires in Lahaina that destroyed the town and killed quite a few people, including some students (and possibly a teacher?), many of the kids were sent to other schools until the schools in Lahaina reopened. Grief counselors were provided, and I think a number of students went to fully remote classes or left the state.
American schools (and some jobs) now have “active shooter drills”.. Ya know, like a fire drill but for shooters.. Let’s not fix the issue though, just teach those kids to hide in a closet or something!
Hopefully, they don’t get the same, dick-headed type of “grief counselors” we did when some fool kids from my high school got themselves killed by drinking and driving.
This psychological counselor dude simply wouldn’t believe that I didn’t care about them, and kept trying to drag out my supposed “trauma” caused by their deaths…
I finally had to tell him flat out: Yes, I knew all four kids. No, I didn’t like them very much. Yes, the two boys (the well-known, popular football players in the car) both used to beat the hell out of me for fun. Their two girlfriends sometimes stood by. So, no, I don’t really care that they’re all dead now. But it might make coming to school less painful for ME. Are we done, now? Can I go back to history class? I have no grief for you to help me “process.” He was stunned, and probably filed a report on what a horrible person I was for not feeling for them…
Some people need and benefit from trauma counseling. Some don’t even need it, and others are so hurt they won’t benefit from simple counseling even if they get it. It all depends on the person and their particular experience.
They make it to the next round to try to survive next year. If you win all the levels when it’s all said and done you get this paper that proves it.
Probably lots of survivor guilt and fucked up lives.
After the Uvalde elementary school shooting, it remained closed initially during the investigation. Then, they decided to permanently close and demolish the school. The returning students were sent to nearby elementary schools.
In the US, they are left to deal with the trauma on their own and if they don’t have medical insurance or crazy deductibles or whatever, then the US tells them to pick themselves up by their bootstraps.
In Europe, they get mental health and crisis counseling immediately at the crime scene as it’s unfolding, even police are trained to handle the victims with sensitivity to not retraumatize them like the cops do in the US when they put machine guns to the faces of fleeing children and tell them to follow their instructions or they’ll shoot them. Then mental health care is easily available and potentially even mandatory from schools. The care can take years or is lifelong, no one will judge anyone about that.
Marjory Taylor Green follows you around and says the shooting was a false flag event.
Yes, this really happened.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/27/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-david-hogg-video/index.html
A few days off from school and then grief counseling when they go back. Teachers get replaced. Speaking from experience.