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Just a guess...
It all starts at home. Parents need to instill in their children a healthy respect for other people, and other people's feelings, and life in general. Schools can be brutal places, and its rarely the school's staff that make them that way. Its other children and the high drama they create. From perhaps the second grade on thru highschool, schools are just big popularity contests, just dog and pony shows. We've all heard the cliche "kids can be cruel"..well, theres a good reason why its a cliche...its all too true. Think back to when you were in school...I'm sure we can all remember when other people gave a damn about what brand of shoes or jeans we were sporting. It was the norm for rude comments about someone's appearance to be made without a care as to how it would make that person feel. And if we're honest with ourselves, we'll have to admit to having been on both the sending and receiving end of these remarks. And then theres the outright physical violence. These are the kinds of things that wont fly in the adult world, because in the adult world people are killed when there are physical assaults, and even as a result of insults and slights. Why should the children's world be any different? They're even less well-equipped to deal with this sort of stress than adults are. Children are certainly exposed to this sort of thing much more often than adults, so is it any wonder that a certain percentage of them get fed up with it and decided to waste their tormentors, and then themselves? When you're a child and life sucks, things seem pretty hopeless because you tend to perceive and react to stressfull situations all out of proportion to reality. But where does the meanness and cruelty come from? If your kid is a mean little bastard of a bully, its a pretty good indication that you dropped the ball somewhere as a parent. You either taught them wrong or you didn't teach them right. In many cases, parents view such things as sort of a right-o-passage..."I came thru it in one piece, so will you"...or "the world is a harsh place, best you learn that now". So, lets start teaching our children how to be considerate and courteous and feel compassion for others as early as possible...some bible study wouldn't go amiss either.
Now, something else that really bothers me is that when some of these guys snap and decide to start killing people, they use guns. I cringe every time this happens, because it just gives the anti-gun lobby more "ammuntion" to use in their single-minded quest to disarm the lawfully armed public. We wouldn't hear a damn peep out of them if the killers used bows and arrows, baseball bats or knives. Last edited by Al Swearengen; 10-04-2006 at 03:19 AM. |
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Yes, this particular case involved a grown-up with absolutely no connection to the school or the students. Yeah, he certainly had plenty of time to "get over it", no question about that. This exact same scenerio played out in Canada last week I believe? If its not a tormented and bullied student its a disgruntled adult looking for easy targets.
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laws and the family. Now we have in America and other countries the "step family" . The ACLU has removed much of what the great nation was built on. You go AL ! |
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God Out of the schools
>The ACLU along with a few lawyers have been able to take God out of our
schools and off our sports feilds and it shows. I'm pretty sure the ACLU hadn't kept God out of Amish schools. They also apparently didn't keep God (or one of his employees) out of that guy's backside when he was a little kid. |
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I'm no fan of the ACLU but it does not really impact me as a parent and how I raise my children. (other than being afraid to spank my children for fear I will be arrested, LOL) Learning how to act in society starts in the home, not in court rooms where it is way too late. Governments and Unions are not designed or equipped to teach values. Parents are in the perfect position to do that, and they have the obligation to do so.
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It kicked in about 1962
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schools and off our sports feilds and it shows. Now to put the monkey back in the box well I don't know ? It does show how a few can cause the many to pay the price. It is sad for all starting with the familys and the ones killed by this lunatic. I-S |
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