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To: Tech Master who wrote (15)4/21/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: DenverTechie  Read Replies (1) of 368
 
No, I don't think that forcing the kids home because of what they wore to school is THE answer. But TODAY it was the right thing to do for 2 reasons. And to fully understand number 1 you have to have lived in the vicinity of a school shooting tragedy like this.

1. These are middle school age children (11- 14 or 15) that were absolutely terrified to see other kids wearing the clothes associated with the mass killers. They were scared to death. The school had to get those coated kids out of there to make the rest of the kids feel that school was once again a safe environment. At least for today.

2. To make the parents aware of what their kids were doing. As you said, it is the role of the parents to instill the morals that would have prevented this from happening in the first place. I can almost, but not quite, guarantee you their parents had no idea what their kids wore to school this morning. Even if it was totally innocent (and it probably was), it was a sick and degrading gesture to wear those clothes. It indicates the state of their minds, as you say. But the parents are unaware....to change their minds, you must start with awareness of where their minds are at.

To let them stay at school like that would have sent the wrong message all around. To the other students in that school, to the kids wearing the trench coats (do whatever you want, we don't care) and to the parents who would continue in their blissful ignorance until something tragic happened and then say "but we never knew there was a problem! Why didn't somebody say something?"
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