I'm sure you have heard of this by now, but if you haven't, please refer to this article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/21/colorado.mall.incident/
So a fire started at this mall in Colorado on the 20th of April. What is significant about that date? If you guessed the Columbine massacre, then you guessed right. If you don't know what THAT is, you have a lot to learn. The fire, which caused zero deaths and the evacuation of the entire mall, was not very far from the high school, and investigators have said that they are not ignoring the correlation. Propane tanks and pipe bombs were found among the flames, but they didn't explode and no on was hurt.
But what does this mean? It is probably a message from someone that the world is not safe; that tragedy can strike in even the most sensitive areas, or rather, especially the most sensitive ares. This worries me greatly and my heart goes out to the students at Columbine. What does this have to do with school? I don't think I have to explain that. Kids are troubled, kids have always been troubled. But now days it's easier and easier for everyone to have a voice, and sometimes their message is one of violence...
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