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Jun. 13th, 2008
Just a Thought
Jun. 13th, 2008 09:37 pm
I read an article earlier today (that I cannot find now) about school shootings and the culture of non-disclosure in which most kids live. When you're a kid or teenager, if you hear that something bad is going to happen, unless it's going to happen to one of your best friends, generally you keep your mouth shut. If you hear about something bad that's going to happen to a best friend they're the only one you tell. The article was focusing on changing that attitude to make safe environments for people to alert school officials if they hear of a murder plot, no matter how small or off-hand it sounds, free of retribution and scorn from peers. Schools are also implementing zero-tolerance policies regarding verbal and physical abuse, bullying, sexual orientation discrimination, etc.
When I was in school kids were violent - we hurled abuses upon one another verbally and physically, we layed in wait for someone to walk unsuspectingly into a bathroom or just turn a corner away from the eyes of authority figures. We would bluff and threaten and beat each other up, fuck up shit in lockers, trash cars, you name it. During high school there were drive-bys in the parking lot. It was just gangs fighting gangs - sorry if you got in the way, but it wasn't personal unless you were in one of the gangs. There were also occasional rapes. I don't think it ever occurred to anyone I went to grade school or jr high school with to bring a gun to class to gun everyone down.
The violence seems to have stepped up over the past 16 years or so since I dropped out - it all kind of started with Kip Kinkle back in 1997. (I originally typed 1991 because I was also looking at an article about Jeremy Wade Delle, who committed suicide in front of his class in 1991) The article I read said that most school shootings are done by kids who are bullied and depressed - which instantly makes me think of 'Goths' and emo-kids. I think between that prevailing attitude and school's pressuring kids into being well-behaved and politically correct, it's going to cause 'normal' kids to lash out even more at the weird kids. I think it's going to start a culture of "kill them before they kill us first". Instead of wailing on them at school where they can get into trouble for it, or starting fights in parking lots or at bus stops, the normal kids are going to be laying in wait for the quiet, depressed, awkward ones off school grounds - with guns.
When I was in school kids were violent - we hurled abuses upon one another verbally and physically, we layed in wait for someone to walk unsuspectingly into a bathroom or just turn a corner away from the eyes of authority figures. We would bluff and threaten and beat each other up, fuck up shit in lockers, trash cars, you name it. During high school there were drive-bys in the parking lot. It was just gangs fighting gangs - sorry if you got in the way, but it wasn't personal unless you were in one of the gangs. There were also occasional rapes. I don't think it ever occurred to anyone I went to grade school or jr high school with to bring a gun to class to gun everyone down.
The violence seems to have stepped up over the past 16 years or so since I dropped out - it all kind of started with Kip Kinkle back in 1997. (I originally typed 1991 because I was also looking at an article about Jeremy Wade Delle, who committed suicide in front of his class in 1991) The article I read said that most school shootings are done by kids who are bullied and depressed - which instantly makes me think of 'Goths' and emo-kids. I think between that prevailing attitude and school's pressuring kids into being well-behaved and politically correct, it's going to cause 'normal' kids to lash out even more at the weird kids. I think it's going to start a culture of "kill them before they kill us first". Instead of wailing on them at school where they can get into trouble for it, or starting fights in parking lots or at bus stops, the normal kids are going to be laying in wait for the quiet, depressed, awkward ones off school grounds - with guns.