tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997867103180948089.post4176300875090868352..comments2023-11-05T01:10:56.987-07:00Comments on School Is Hell: Connecticut's School MassacreNed Varehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13922045819281944589noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997867103180948089.post-29286142847575113602007-12-17T14:46:00.000-08:002007-12-17T14:46:00.000-08:00Schooled kids have been reacting with violence for...Schooled kids have been reacting with violence for years, usually it is called bullying, verbal and physical. <BR/><BR/>Next up we have sexual harrassment, inappropriate touching and groping. <BR/><BR/>All that went on in the schools when I was in them in the 1970s and 1980s (in New Haven County, CT).<BR/><BR/>Next up was cyber bullying, when did that start, in the late 1990s or early 2000s?<BR/><BR/>And lately, the intentional physical attacks being videotaped and broadcast on YouTube, for supposed laughs or 'entertainment". I call that SICK STUFF. (That is the 2000s).<BR/><BR/>All of the above are done by many students of both genders and all races and religions.<BR/><BR/>Let's not also forget the students who so hate school and are so angry that they seek escape in the form of tobacco, illegal drugs and alcohol (all while IN THE SCHOOL) to boot.<BR/><BR/>Shooting, murdering, is just the next step, a step that less will take, thank goodness.<BR/><BR/>A gun scare in my town's high school was covered up by our town's paper. A mom who picked up her daughter that afternoon and saw all the police cars asked the office staff what was up and she said, "Nothing". Yet in a city newspaper the next day, the story was there: guns were reported to be in a boy's locker and indeed they were found there.<BR/><BR/>A friend of mine, father of homeschooled children, thought he'd become a teacher to help as he could, to educate the students in CT. He decided to sub first to see what schools were really like. He worked at that school for two years, the high school in my town. He said there were 1 if not 2 in every class that he figured could 'pull a Columbine' at any moment. Mind you this is a wealthy town, nearly all white, professional parents with multiple degrees, with a median income of $128K (per US Census data). These kids "have everything going for them", supposedly.<BR/><BR/>SCARY SCARY STUFF!<BR/><BR/>Oh, and he decided the schools were doomed and he gave up the idea of going for his teacher's degree and also vowed to never let his kids go to public school here in Fairfield County.ChristineMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17388497877158577422noreply@blogger.com