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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
The past generations feared the bomb. The next generation will fear each other. The humanity that it takes to recognize problems in these adolescents will be systematically erased from them. The problems that have led up to these shooting will continue and worsen. So I predict that there will be many more shootings to come.
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Interesting...
You know, I only graduated from high school 7 years ago. The worst thing I ever saw during my 4 years were some pranks and a fistfight. Of course, I went to parochial school. I saw a few odd things at the public schools, like the kid who was chased through a high school with a gun--he wound up leaping out a second-story window and broke his leg.
I think that there were a few isolated incidents that spawned copycat after copycat. You would have thought that Columbine would have been the end of it, but sadly, no. Furthermore, we have REACTION instead of some practical PROACTION. The schools are "getting tough" on these "bad seeds." Zero tolerance...blah blah blah.
Seems to be working well so far, eh?
Granted, I only have a bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in social work. But is that damned hard to give kids some simple ways to blow off steam? Help them better resolve conflicts? Instead, we blame TV and Marilyn Manson.
Or the parents. Has it also ever occurred to the experts that maybe these kids simply aren't hard-wired very well?
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