{"id":37060,"date":"2019-05-18T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37060"},"modified":"2019-05-18T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:11:11","slug":"this-near-tragedy-hits-where-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37060","title":{"rendered":"This near-tragedy hits where it hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was a bit slow on the uptake to get the details quickly, but when some of them rolled in, I shuddered to the bone.<\/p>\n

A security guard at Parkrose (Ore.) High School tackled an armed student and prevented a tragedy at a place I now quite well.<\/p>\n

I attended and graduated from high school at Parkrose, which is now part of the Portland Public School District. Fifty-two years ago, when I obtained my diploma, it was a suburban community with a school system run by its own elected board.<\/p>\n

Oh, man. This story shakes me to my core.<\/p>\n

A heroic security guard named Keanon Lowe prevented the tragedy. He tackled the student after getting a tip from other students who reportedly had noticed some “concerning activity” involving the youngster with the gun.<\/p>\n

Lowe is a former wide receiver for the University of Oregon who now serves as head football and track coach at Parkrose High School.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN.com<\/a>: Parkrose was evacuated and a nearby middle school was on lockdown for several hours as the investigation unfolded. The high school students were bused to a nearby parking lot where they were reunited with their parents.<\/em><\/p>\n

Parents and students called Lowe a “hero.” Do ya think?<\/p>\n

I didn’t walk the halls of the current Parkrose campus. The school building from which I graduated was torn down and replaced with the new campus some years back. But . . . one still remains tied forever to the school system that provided one’s education. When stories like this make news, well, you feel it just a little more deeply.<\/p>\n

Wow! I am so happy this story has turned out the all right. So, too, are the loved ones of the students who saw it unfold in real time.<\/p>\n

Keanon Lowe deserves a raise in pay. A big<\/em> raise at that!<\/p>\n\n

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I was a bit slow on the uptake to get the details quickly, but when some of them rolled in, I shuddered to the bone. A security guard at Parkrose (Ore.) High School tackled an armed student and prevented a tragedy at a place I now quite well. I attended and graduated from high school … Continue reading This near-tragedy hits where it hurts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2037,3500,5025],"class_list":["post-37060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-parkrose-high-school","tag-university-of-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37062,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37060\/revisions\/37062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}