I'm sure the Sentinel has no concern about stemming the flow into private schools. This is a big part of corporate and government policy. They run down the public schools, or outright shut them down and push more and more education into the private sector where both profits and religious indoctrination can be made at the expense of education.

Perhaps it is a prejudice of my big city upbringing, but a student bringing a gun to school does not seem very news worthy to me. I remember all the bad publicity that surrounded a stabbing that took place at my high school. I was amongst those that complained about the complete lack of good coverage of our school or neighborhood.

An over emphasis of coverage of local violence in the corporate media of the United States often gives people an exaggerated sense of danger and helps drive bad public policies like spending on cops and prisons over schools.

Yet, the Sentinel is not only a very bad paper ideologically, they are also incompetent and may have completely missed that there was a potential story.