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Pastimes : John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C Kahn who wrote (164)	9/1/1999 5:57:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 440

Welcome home, C Kahn. I am sure you had someone watching your house while being away - I mean after first declaring the period of your absence in a public forum ... . I didn't dare to say that before your holidays, in order not to spoil them - it is one of the honest reasons for restricting the flow of personal information. We agree about Akula's age. I only hope his / her mental immune system is already strong enough to stand the fora he/she is frequenting. To reach that in that age is more difficult than brightness. Most students are hindered from reaching their optimal level of performance for reasons outside the immediate learning situation. A search produced some public information on truedog's health. I am relieved that he feels better, and I am still holding on to welcome him once he is back. It is true that not much about JFK, nor JFK jr. has been written on both these threads. Still I feel no need to curb 'personal' conversation. Regards MNI.

To: C Kahn who wrote (164)	9/2/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: Akula	Respond to of 440

As I see it, many of the children in today's schools are not at all prone to violence. There are virtually no fights whatsoever in my school and no one has been stuffed in a locker. The schools of my parents generation seem to have been more violent that the schools of today, on average. Unfortunately there are both children and adults in our society who are violent people. In schools, there is simply no way to weed these people out. The only real solution to violence in schools, as I see it, is to greatly restrict access to weapons. That is the only way to really see that something like Columbine doesn't happen again. As for the bombs, I cannot see how a person smart enough to build a bomb that works would want to do so. I hope that no one in my school has had time enough to become disillusioned enough to want to do something like that. FYI, I have noticed that the response of many schools in Virginia at least has been to concentrate on security of threats from the outside, not the inside. Our school doors are locked during the day, but no attempt has been done to try to identify violent students.