Recently in the news, the University of Chicago sent out letters to the incoming class of 2020 warning them that they will not be safe from harm. What kind of school does that? You should always feel welcomed and safe at whatever school you are attending or are going to attend.
If you are going to tell students that are starting school this fall to "not expect safe spaces and a trigger-free existence during their four-year journey through academia" then maybe the University of Chicago should change their outlook in their community. Every school whether it is an elementary school, middle school, high school, or university.
Everyone should feel safe and everyone there should make sure that we are all safe from harms way. We attend to school to help start out career and lives and for a school to simply say that they cannot protect anyone from gun violence is just wrong. Yes, this world has had a lot of gun violence and shootings in schools and colleges, but all these schools are taking better security measures.
Is the University of Chicago trying to say that they do not value the lives of any of their students because that's what is sounding like right now and it is really disturbing. Putting myself in the shoes of the class of 2020 and also their parents who got those letters from that school, I'm sure they all felt terrified -- especially the parents.
The university needs to put themselves in the students' shoes and ask themselves this: why accept all these incoming freshmen just to send them a letter saying that they will not be protected at school? The school should be thinking about its faculty as well. What about the people who work at the school?
Are you saying that they will also be in danger as well. Are you really putting the lives of your fellow teachers, custodians, and faculty? I honestly feel that if the University feels that their students will be in danger and can't protect them, then they should not be a school at all and should just probably close down.
It's not fair to the students at all that a college should out a letter like that. They should be sending the students letters saying that they will increase security and make sure the students are protected not scare them half to death. The University of Chicago needs to alter their outlook.
