Retired teacher questions choice of school raffles
LPR staff
Retired teacher Mary Eisenberg addressed the Lockhart ISD School Board Monday evening, thankful some projects helping students continue yet disturbed by others.
Eisenberg commended all for Project Graduation, but added, “I was surprised to see that they are raising funds by raffling guns. In the pictures I saw, there were assault rifles. There have been 119 mass shootings this year. More than 700 children have died by suicide this year. It hasn’t been that long since the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde. This raffle and others are not only insensitive, but also tone deaf. When I shared this with other people, they were shocked. I hope the board will reconsider gun raffles in the future.”
While I understand Ms Eisenberg concern I don’t believe the gun raffle was caused by the board having tone deafness. More than likely it was something that has csrried forth from years passed when society was normal. If you are older you can remember when students drove old pickups having gun racks in them with maybe a deer riffle or a shotgun in there ready to go hunting after school was over. It never entered a student mind to comment such unspeakable acts against our fellow students and teachers. I now can agree that a gun is inappropriate iteam to be raffled off by the school.. I would like to say also we need to spend less time talking about the guns and more trying to determine what is happening inside the minds of our children to think this way. Until the cause of this mental deterioration of these children’s minds is solved then the shooting will not end.