What lesson do our children learn when watching children ****** children in their classrooms what value do we give their education when seperating best friends forever by filling one heart with grief and putting the other one in its early grave what child needs to know the weight and velocity of the bullets that tore their once safe world apart
how many tears will it take to drown out the greed that allows the trigger of the gun to be in such an easy place to reach and the moment of silence has had its turn and though it may have brought some small comfort it did not take the pain away
now we must raise our voices for the dead we must raise our voices for those who have not yet died we must raise our voices and we must be loud louder than the money exchanging hands louder than the bullets and the bangs and louder than the rat-a-tat-tat machine guns song
its more than a matter of safety or control its the value of the education we too often forget forget to teach forget to remember forget to live by the education of kindness the value of generosity the need of empathy the lesson and the gift of love
that we are all the same no matter our birthplace no matter what flag we sleep under no matter what name we whisper when we offer our prayers and our hopes we are all the same we all live in the same house no matter how many walls divide us no matter the mountains between us no matter the oceans that separate us
we are all in one house and we are all connected by the one thing the only thing we need to both give and to receiveΒ Β the lesson and the gift of love
let us teach this first before anything else because without it the education we give our children will continue to be washed away with the lives of all the children that we fail to save