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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (8127)	3/10/2001 6:01:37 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

There are no easy answers, or convenient scapegoats I have to disagree with that. There are always easy answers and convenient scapegoats. After Columbine, the easy answer from our legislative leaders was to try to pass a law mandating the 10 commandments be posted in public school classrooms. Maybe they could combine that with some new "pro-life" measure this time around. Wouldn't make any difference, but it would give the righteous right another opportunity to preach. Nobody said the easy answers had to be correct, or the convenient scapegoats guilty.

To: Constant Reader who wrote (8127)	3/10/2001 6:08:05 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I only know what was reported that he told his friends in his former home town was happening to him, and what I gathered from an interview with one of the students, a girl, at the school. Please don['t think that I am implying that being bullied at school justifies opening fire. I am merely pointing out how strange it has seemed to me, when students report patterns of extreme bullying have preceded such incidents, that the teachers were either unaware of or uninterested in the phenomenon. The "quite capable of teasing others" comment seems to imply something, but I don't know what. That bullies get what they deserve? I hope and assume not. No one gets through high school w/o being teased. There is the matter of degree, of course. Misery-causing, ongoing humiliation by bullies of weak individuals should be stopped. This phenomenon is, I understand, worse in Japan than it is here.

To: Constant Reader who wrote (8127)	3/10/2001 6:21:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

it remains to be seen how much teasing went on and if that reached the level of torment. Teenage years are tough and kids can be and usually are brutal to those who don't fit in. I don't think torment is a reasonable threshold for a teenager to lose it. I don't know what can be done to get kids to be kind to each other. We have too little success getting alleged adults on SI to be civil let alone kind. I don't know what the answer is, but if it depends on kids not brutalizing the outliers, it won't work. Karen