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Pastimes : WHY?? Littleton Colorado -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DenverTechie who wrote (13)	4/21/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: TraderAlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368

DT, I live in Littleton and my wife works for the school district at an elementary school several blocks from Columbine. I really don't think the media did that bad a job. The interviews with the kids actually seemed to help my own two through some of it. I do have a serious issue with the "experts" that come on and say it the community's or society's responsibility to fix the problem. Reminds me too much of the first Clinton term where it seemed they were all set to move into "in loco parentus" and have the government take over the role of the family. Give me a break. I'm sure we'll see the parents of the evil killers were as low-life as the perpetrators. That's where the problem is. That's the first line of defense for the rest of us. I don't know how far parental responsibility needs to extend but they're in a much better position to see when their kids have gone psycho than the schools, churchs, society, etc. Face it. "Our" generation (I'm 47) has done a good job of degrading their role in bringing up their kids. Remember that 8 year old who was going to fly across the country solo and then crashed in Wyoming. Her mom said she had a right to "do her own thing". Too much ganga in past years has made many adults more juvenile than their kids. Alan

To: DenverTechie who wrote (13)	4/21/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: Tech Master	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368

Do you really think that forcing those kids to go home because they wore trench coats to school is the answer? The educators need to help those children change their minds, not their clothing. The bottom line IMO is that we have failed to maintain the strong family unit in our society that teaches our children disipline, responsibility, and morals. I commented earlier that these children learned to act this way because of the media... I still believe that... but it is the role of the family to instill the morals which would have prevented this senseless act from occurring in the first place.

To: DenverTechie who wrote (13)	4/22/1999 9:00:00 AM
From: Robert B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 368

<<Sick indeed. But the sad and scary part is that, according to my son and school officials, these young people have been dressing this way on a regular basis for some time now at his school (which is not Columbine). In other words,THE TRENCH COAT MAFIA IS NOT AN ISOLATED GROUP TO THAT PARTICULAR HIGH SCHOOL in the Denver area. Might even go state wide, or wider>> It's just a fad! It is a way "alternative" thinking kids dress these days. It has been going on for about 2 years now. After the trenchcoat fad wears out, there will be another way to dress "wierd". It is called a "gothic" look. It is so common that Saturday night live was doing skits about these "gothicly" dressed teens over a year ago. There is not a widespread trenchcoat mafia.