I'm sure most of you have seen this on the news already:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/25/alaska....plot.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
A bunch of 7th graders in Alaska planned a massacre, and three other schools around the country "foiled" similar plots recently.
Obviously as a school administrator, student violence is on the top of your mind right about now and should have been since Columbine. I just have to ask though, with these consistent attempts of violence (and some not attempts, some actual attacks) wtf are these people doing to stop it? I don't mean more security or catch the plots early, I mean what are they doing to change their school's environment.
In every one of these school shootings or planned shootings I've read about, the kids motivation behind it all was to get back at people. Kids in grade school can be real assholes to the less popular, dorky, fat, ugly, whatever. I understand teachers are overworked and have to damn near take over full parental duties in terms of raising these kids, my mother has been a school teacher all her life.
But it seems to me that teachers and administrators would be able to pick up on those who are doing the bullying. The "popular crowd" is always pretty damn apparent at any school, and the sadistic assholes in those groups who torture other kids should be damn easy to pick out as well. Stopping the problem at its source would be a better solution than rushing to try and prevent the attacks at the point that the kids are already frustrated enough to go and commit these atrocities.
Reminds me of an episode of Law & Order SVU, where this group of snotty bitches killed one of their own. Backstory in the episode was about a fat girl who was ridiculed extremely maliciously by these hoes and no one did anything about it, until the fat girl shot one of those bitches dead in school.
Such a waste of life
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/25/alaska....plot.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
A bunch of 7th graders in Alaska planned a massacre, and three other schools around the country "foiled" similar plots recently.
Obviously as a school administrator, student violence is on the top of your mind right about now and should have been since Columbine. I just have to ask though, with these consistent attempts of violence (and some not attempts, some actual attacks) wtf are these people doing to stop it? I don't mean more security or catch the plots early, I mean what are they doing to change their school's environment.
In every one of these school shootings or planned shootings I've read about, the kids motivation behind it all was to get back at people. Kids in grade school can be real assholes to the less popular, dorky, fat, ugly, whatever. I understand teachers are overworked and have to damn near take over full parental duties in terms of raising these kids, my mother has been a school teacher all her life.
But it seems to me that teachers and administrators would be able to pick up on those who are doing the bullying. The "popular crowd" is always pretty damn apparent at any school, and the sadistic assholes in those groups who torture other kids should be damn easy to pick out as well. Stopping the problem at its source would be a better solution than rushing to try and prevent the attacks at the point that the kids are already frustrated enough to go and commit these atrocities.
Reminds me of an episode of Law & Order SVU, where this group of snotty bitches killed one of their own. Backstory in the episode was about a fat girl who was ridiculed extremely maliciously by these hoes and no one did anything about it, until the fat girl shot one of those bitches dead in school.
Such a waste of life
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