I’ve just wrapped up what was going to be a “quick” project, and ended up turning into a ton of content & touch-ups to make it “just right”…
The site for the Vote Yes on 3A campaign in Park County Colorado was originally set up to be a brief informational site on the details regarding the Mill Levy that would generate $300,000 for the Park County School District. I had set up the site to use the jQuery Accordion plug-in for a nice effect on several key topics, expanding for more detailed information on the topic. However, after the amount of content grew, and the section for statistics on school violence incidents became more of a complete report card of the tragic events dating back as far that could be found, listing over 1800 tragic events, and details regarding each event, it was clear the accordion plug-in couldn’t handle the massive amount of data. Without time to modify the code to load content from an external source, I was forced to remove the option, and just let the page be what it is: A massive amount of data on school violence, highlighted by the needs of the Park County School District in order to encourage local residents to Vote Yes on 3A.
So against some of my recommendations, the site is complete. If I’d known the data would be this massive after it was done, I would have planned it as a multi-page site rather than a single page informational, but that’s all water under the bridge.
School violence occurs daily in the United States. These include such episodes such as shootings, beatings and stabbings, bullying, the list goes on and on. Student-perpetrated school massacres in North America most often occur in overwhelmingly white, middle class non-urban areas (small towns and suburbs) where they receive the most media attention due to their severity in a brief period of time.
We need your help… not just residents of Park County where this Mill Levy applies, but in every school across the nation, in every community across the world, we must prepare, and through our preparation, we can help prevent tragic massacres from shaking the very foundation of your own children’s school.
Thank you for your help in getting this passed for our community to better ensure the safety of our children.
