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Word of the Day: Cure-all
First, let me say there is no such thing as a cure-all.
Why?
Well, it will solve any problem or cure any sickness.
There is nothing on this earth that will answer all of our questions.
In other words, cure-alls don’t exist.
Look at the current situation in the United States.
Gun violence involving schools has reached epidemic proportions.
Since the Columbine incident, thousands of children have had firsthand experience of gun violence at their schools, which are supposed to be safe places.
American schools hold active shooter drills, the same way that Japanese schools hold earthquake or tsunami drills.
The sad part is more American kids are shot at school than there are Japanese kids killed at a school in earthquakes.
How do American leaders propose to solve the problem of gun violence?
Well, arm the teachers, of course.
They say that arming teachers will be a cure-all which will prevent school shootings from ever happening again.
I’m not sure that’s the best solution.
As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
No guns = no shootings = no dead kids at school
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 75.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.