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To: Akula who wrote (4380)	10/21/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: truedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

to: Akula from: truedog Sharkey--There were no fights in my high school because we all knew that one fight would get us expelled. Not sent home for a few days but, expelled. No more attendance at that school. No one would have dared carry a weapon on campus. Not even a jack-knife. There were a few delinquents who had dropped out of school and caused some fights off campus but they were soon arrested and punished according to age. TD

To: Akula who wrote (4380)	10/21/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: Null Dog Ago	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

That's an interesting topic to bring up. I've only been out of high school for just a little over 10 years now, and what I noticed prior to graduating was that violence was on a steady increase within the schools. Moreover, the fights were growing increasingly more violent and the lack of respect for order and authority within the school was decreasing. When I listened to any of my parents' or grandparents' stories, yes, there were fights, but they never seemed as violent as what I was witnessing during my school years. Was this just a sudden surge of violence that was quickly calmed within a decade? What's your take on Columbine, and all the mimic attempts that followed? This seems far more violent than the stories I was told and the events I witnessed. Doesn't seem very Ghandi-inspired to me.