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- Gavron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Probably the most even headed and lucid account of the shootings I've read to date. The problem is, no one will buy it. People get all uncomfortable and twitchy when you drop a question mark over their most basic beliefs and assumptions.
- Tess2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is so well written. I remember from childhood wanting to always fit into the "IN" crowd. Would do anything for their approval, and yet still thinking to myself, "Who are these people?" The author is so Right On when he says that this boy does not fit into the few categories society tries to put school shooters in. Saying they are "evil" just doesn't cut it. The allowed bullying is an epidemic in our schools. Is it being over looked and tolerated because the school administrators, teachers, and parents still are trying to fit into the "IN" crowd as adults?
- ELAINECDECARMO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Schools don't do enough to stop the bullies. They claim that they can only do so much and in the end nothing changes. Since children are forced to go to school, it's only right that they should not have to be subjected to bullying. Who the hell can learn any thing in that situation. I simply wouldn't go to school if that were happening to me. Schools have to have a zero tolerance for bullying. If children don't feel safe at school, they shouldn't have to go. If you stop forcing them to endure the bullying, there wouldn't be these kinds of shootings.
- jgehman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I also agree it's a great article. One thing they didn't really cover very well, though, is what to do about the situation. Someone just above said "Schools have to have a zero tolerance for bullying". That might help, somewhat, in some situations. The really bad situations probably are allowed by administrators that aren't doing their job. But really, how can you possibly remove all bullying from public schools? If you try, you'll end up with programs that are "zero tolerance for common sense", just like the current "zero tolerace for weapons" which get kids expelled for drawing a picture of a weapon, or for pointing a chicken finger and saying "bang".
The problem is the public school itself. When you pull together a bunch of kids by age, and not by learning level, intelligence, physical size, maturity, or any other sensible criterion, what would you EXPECT but that kids will bully one another. Probably, they'd do it no matter what.
If you want to find out what's really going on in public schools, google the name "John Taylor Gatto". His articles are all over the web, and if you've never ready his stuff, you'll be shocked.
The solution? Two things: 1) Homeschool your kids. (It's not that hard anymore. There are complete curriculla and plenty of support groups. And 2) http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
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