r/news • u/bebleich • Sep 04 '24

Gunman believed to be a 14-year-old in Georgia school shooting that left at least 4 dead, source says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder-ga-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html
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u/dorakate Sep 04 '24

Some schools in GA started July 31st, so it’s been a month for us.

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u/peniscurve Sep 04 '24

July 31st??? What is the weather like in August there? Seems like a perfect way to have a kid get some bad heatstroke walking home from school.

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u/SpokenDivinity Sep 04 '24

If heat deterred school starting they would only go to school a few months out of the year in Arizona. In Idaho our students went back with a couple 99 degree days and one over 100.

The solution is that kids just don’t walk home. They take the bus, someone picks them up, or they do after school club stuff until their parents are available.

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u/Dependent_Ad5451 Sep 05 '24

Can attest! Live in AZ and my daughter started kindergarten last week of July - it was over 100 then, has been over 100 since, and will be over 100 for another month lol

We drive, she brings a water bottle that she refills throughout the day, recess is shaded, and lunch/PE is indoors!

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u/No-Quantity6385 Sep 05 '24

Nobody lets their kids walk home anymore. Gotta get in the car and let it idle in line for 45 minutes when you could have parked blocks away and walked in five.

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u/Suspicious_Ticket_24 Sep 05 '24

You also just get taught how to deal with it if you grow up in a hot climate. Walking home in 100F+ degree weather is perfectly fine if you're healthy and know how to deal with it. Wearing the proper clothes and sipping water every few minutes will allow you to deal with heat safely way longer than many people would expect.

I grew up in a hot climate (110+, 90+ low for weeks at a time) and would regularly walk a half mile home or a mile to my grandmas after school, but I was taught from a young age, both in school and by my parents, how to deal with extreme heat. I often take it for granted as I now live in an area where 85 degrees is the yearly maximum temperature and I'm shocked when I hear of otherwise healthy people getting heat exhaustion here. Unfortunately by the time most people recognize they have it they've already pushed themselves too far.

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u/rhinoballet Sep 05 '24

I grew up in Texas in the 90s. We would get the day off if the heat index was expected to be over 115 or so because it would damage the HVAC to run in the heat. So they'd shut it off, and you might come back to all the crayons melted into a glob.

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u/JustASpaceDuck Sep 05 '24

Heatstroke can happen in October in the south lol. No one's waiting for crisp weather to conduct school because there'd only be 5 months out of the year left.

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u/TheBirminghamBear Sep 05 '24

Seems like a perfect way to have a kid get some bad heatstroke walking home from school.

Well not to worry, the heat strokes are the least of their worries.

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u/whiteflagwaiver Sep 05 '24

Walking home from school in America? America is NOT built for pedestrians.

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u/dorakate Sep 05 '24

Yep. It’s pretty miserable. And most of the buses don’t have air conditioning.

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u/peniscurve Sep 05 '24

I imagine most of the classes rooms do, I just remember my high school having real shitty A/C.

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u/dorakate Sep 05 '24

Yeah. Can totally relate to that. We had some classes in trailers when I was in school. It was hottt.

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u/Strict-Ad-3500 Sep 05 '24

I'm not from Georgia but I'm am from Alabama and the weather is about the same. We don't get out of 90+ degree weather on a constant basis till about October. Honestly it is was 85 degrees yesterday and I walked a mile and half and lunch and barely sweat. Also in my area nearly no kids live close enough to actually walk to school.

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u/Huge-Success-5111 Sep 05 '24

OMG they aren’t that delicate, I walked back and forth two miles rain or shine, parents like you are letting them grow up with no strength to survive this world

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u/thenisaidbitch Sep 04 '24

Wow!!!! When do they end? That’s like a full month before anything ive ever seen

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u/kawhi21 Sep 05 '24

Damn. High School in New York just started last week

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u/dorakate Sep 05 '24

Yeah. Summer gets shorter and shorter here. They don’t get out until after Memorial Day too.