These must-have Insider Deal household items are at unbeatable prices!FILE - Members of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity lead a crowd of people in prayer outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Ch
urch after a memorial for the nine people who were shot and killed during Bible study in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 19, 2015. When violence comes to a public place, as it does all too often in our era, a delicate question lingers afterward: What should be done with the buildings where blood was shed? the building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a gunman's rampage in 2018 ended with 17 people dead. AsFrom former student Bryan Lequerique: “It’s something that we all need.
What goes into these decisions? Not only emotion and heartbreak. Sometimes it's simply a question of resources; not all school districts can afford to demolish and rebuild. Sometimes it's about not wanting to give those who might support the shooter a place to "There are changing norms about things like trauma and closure that are at play that today encourage the notion of demolishing these spaces," said Timothy Recuber, a sociologist at Smith College in Massachusetts and author of “Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster.”
“It’s easy to see why decision-makers might have chosen one path or the other. And to me, it seems presumptuous for anyone not part of, or directly affected by, the choice to quibble with it,” said Slater, who retired this month after 30 years of teaching middle and high school English. “That said, the decision to demolish such sites, when seen in the context of our escalating culture of erasure, should raise concern.
“If we’re interested in the memories of the people who directly experienced the event, that physical space will serve as a specific and powerful reminder. But if we’re talking about remembering or commemorating an event for other people, those who did not experience it, that’s a slightly different calculus," Talarico said. “Remembering and forgetting are both powerful forces."
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