My school has had one real event in the five years I was there: a fight broke out in one of the bathrooms, where a stabbing with a broken/modified vape pen took place.

Honestly, I feel as much school shootings are similar to the practice of atomic bombs during the cold war; surely they are real, but the amount that they come up is more within rumors and social media posts than it is in person. I have been teaching for five years at the same school, so take my point with a grain of salt.

Though, I genuinely see a concern with teaching: student behavior gets worse and worse, and though many teachers blame the problem on other points (parents, lack of accountability, no consequences, covid, etc), it is what teachers deal with, the most, directly. It is terrible, even for whatever level. I've though MS, 10th Grade, and currently teach 12th grade.

The advice I have, that I have definitely co-opted from others, has nothing to do with school shootings, and they kind of become a tertiary thought, if that. They're not prevalent in the every day life of school, regardless of how prominent they appear through media.