Prevention, not hindsight, is the key task of all institutions that have to deal with the state of education, violence, juvenile delinquency, and unfortunately, crimes committed by juveniles.
The horror that happened two days ago in the elementary school in Lukavac, when a minor shot a teacher and seriously wounded him, horrified the public. A student who is not even 14 years old brought a gun to school and shot the teacher. The public’s fear is even greater when something like this happens after the unprecedented tragedy in Belgrade at the beginning of May.
And as a natural sequence of events, citizens expect answers, but above all results. However, the messages that the public heard two days ago, as well as the reactions after the Belgrade tragedy and the ideas that were presented, show that the problem is being approached as cramming and in a hasty manner.
Solutions in this particular case are not easy to find, but because this requires a systematic and long-term approach, analyses, plans, and most importantly, the implementation of measures and their continuity. The problem is not only educational but also social and requires the wider community, and above all the family.
The sentence that rang out two days ago, and which is expected, is that a person under the age of 14 will not be held criminally responsible for injuring a teacher. The arrested student has been placed under psychiatric evaluation and could be released very soon, as the law requires. However, citizens need answers for the future.
What will happen to the student who shot the teacher, when the police investigation and psychiatric examination are over? Will he be placed in an educational center? Will he be monitored by some service? Will psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and the like be involved in the process? Will anyone take care of the trauma and psychological shock of the children who were in the school and in front of the school that morning and witnessed the event? Will anyone take care of the educators who were traumatized?
Will this case remain just one event that the authorities will deal with and soon forget, or will the growing problems in upbringing, education, and general education be seriously approached? It is no longer a question of whether someone failed because there are certainly many in the chain of responsibility. The question is whether the citizens will see the results of some kind of prevention, and not that we are exclusively concerned with the consequences, Klix.ba reports.
E.Dz.
