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Re: LIVE COVERAGE: Active shooter in custody at Santa Fe HS
I think you're on to something there -- we're actually "creating them" and I think (just my opinion) it's due to some of the crap that's going on in public schools. We've gotten to the point, in many schools, where the entire school revolves around the athletes. That's where the money goes (in my town, the varsity B-ball players get their own parking spaces closest to the school), and kids who don't make the sport-cut are nobody, even if they're lots brighter (and they usually are). Everything's geared around sports and all the rest of the kids have to spend their days in the shadows.
I think that's it more than actual "bullying." These losers get the idea that they want to take down the ones who are at the top of the food chain -- make 'em pay -- and then they see all the attention other shooters get and the idea grows from a molehill to a mountain of revenge.
Personally, I'd get rid of school sports (not athletics, just sports) and move competitive teams over to community recreation. That'd not only break the "jock clique" it'd also stop cheer-leading, and seriously, can anything be more demeaning to women than to think it's an honor to cheer for males? I mean -- really!
Yes, people who can't deal with criticism and rejection become society's losers, and we have an over-abundance of them. But, let's stop the public school caste system that allows them to rise in the first place. Let's focus once again on academics.
Heck, I'd even be in favor of school-issued uniforms, just because I've seen children bullied because their parents didn't have the money to buy them the name-brand clothes that some of the kids wore.
I think you're on to something there -- we're actually "creating them" and I think (just my opinion) it's due to some of the crap that's going on in public schools. We've gotten to the point, in many schools, where the entire school revolves around the athletes. That's where the money goes (in my town, the varsity B-ball players get their own parking spaces closest to the school), and kids who don't make the sport-cut are nobody, even if they're lots brighter (and they usually are). Everything's geared around sports and all the rest of the kids have to spend their days in the shadows.
I think that's it more than actual "bullying." These losers get the idea that they want to take down the ones who are at the top of the food chain -- make 'em pay -- and then they see all the attention other shooters get and the idea grows from a molehill to a mountain of revenge.
Personally, I'd get rid of school sports (not athletics, just sports) and move competitive teams over to community recreation. That'd not only break the "jock clique" it'd also stop cheer-leading, and seriously, can anything be more demeaning to women than to think it's an honor to cheer for males? I mean -- really!
Yes, people who can't deal with criticism and rejection become society's losers, and we have an over-abundance of them. But, let's stop the public school caste system that allows them to rise in the first place. Let's focus once again on academics.
Heck, I'd even be in favor of school-issued uniforms, just because I've seen children bullied because their parents didn't have the money to buy them the name-brand clothes that some of the kids wore.
