JESSICA DaSILVA

I’m a little late picking up on this, but last week the Washington Post reported that the United States Department of Education was granting Virginia Tech $960,685 to “improve its efforts to identify and help troubled students and staff.”

This seemed really weird to me. Yeah, I know there was a tragedy at V-Tech. Yes, I realize it was because of miscommunication in the system. But isn’t the person who caused this tragedy gone?

I don’t understand why the department of education is giving so much money to one school when all universities across the country could use it for the same improvements. In the article it states that V-Tech plans to share its discoveries with other U.S. universities. But how would schools implement the same programs without the same funding?

I just can’t help but wonder who could possibly predict where another tragedy could occur. That being said, shouldn’t the massacre have led to a type of countrywide revamping of all universities’ mental health and counseling centers?

There are violent mentally ill students at every school. You can’t single out a single institution.