Mass Stabbing at PA High School

I give a fuck :-(

 

I'm interested in home schooling my kids too, when I have them. But not for the same reasons mentioned here regarding the fear of their kid getting stabbed or shot. No no no, your kids are more likely to be hit by lightening. But for the concerns and my extreme hatred for Zero Tolerance Policies. Kids nowadays can't eat a pop-tart and risk having it shaped like a gun, point their fingers like a gun, or even talk about weapons like guns or bombs without getting suspended or expelled. Harsh, humiliating, and belittling punishments like that are more likely to scar an innocent child for life.

I too remember archery, javelin throwing, and playing with guns made with your thumb and index finger with nobody giving a shit. When I was a kid I brought a hollowed-out, deactivated grenade to school to show my friends. All that happened to me was the teacher took it and gave it to my parents when they came to pick me up after school.

You implied something about it, and people ran with it for 5 pages.

 

I wonder if increases in violence is linked to a widening wealth gap, increase in population, as well as messages sent or carried by pop culture media, compounded by psychological problems that were always there in the populace but get stirred up or activated when the mix of all these factors are present.

 

FYI, as an independent nation we are only 237 years old as of July 4th 2013...

 

FYI, "hundreds" is plural meaning multiple hundreds. 237 is more than 100.

 

No offense, but as a joke, we see a statement uttered by what the American education system produces.

 

Hm, okay, that totally makes sense and I agree with you. On the line of what you were saying near the end... I actually do think the media has something to do with the recent mass violence. Media and meds.

 

I think so too, but the question is what do you do about it? Where are parents responsible, and what can mental health processionals do to help identify people who are prone to these kinda of behavioral actions?

 

Parents are obviously responsible for monitoring what you allow your children to watch and making sure to provide input and talk about traumatic things on the news w their kids when it's something that may disturb them, etc.
Parents are also responsible to instill values in their kids and teach their kids basically, I know it sounds simple, but, right from wrong. Also to instill self esteem and to show your kids that you're there if they ever have anything bugging them that they want to talk about.
Parents are also responsible if they do see their kid going through a rough time or acting like something just isn't right for prying and trying to figure out what is wrong to try to help them.

Unfor. you can do ALL those things very well and still not control them being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And on that note and also, in response to something that fueledbycoffee said in an earlier post. There are also other reasons I am seriously considering homeschooling. School violence is by far not the ONLY reason. I think the thing for me is that I also do understand the chance that my children will be killed in school is not very likely at all... I know there is a far greater chance they will be in a car accident or something as teenagers. (also scary though but yea...)

But I think for me...that school shooting I told you about earlier in thread- where the 12 or 13 year old boy (who btw, I didn't know him but I went to school with his older sister)--shot (and killed) the principal and then shot (and killed) himself... in front of half of the student body in the morning before classes in the cafeteria... well, I think because I had went to that school (only a few years earlier), knew the principal, etc.--- my mom also worked up the hill at the time at the elementary school next door... the kids, well, a bunch of them ran out when it happened and went into the elementary school to hide and for help... so my mom was very involved w the trauma those kids went through that day and she knew those kids from them having recently been in her elementary school... neways, I think it hit home hard for me. Even though it wasn't there, combining that w the bullying I went through (not as a bully) in that exact school and the way I saw some kids acting in that school... I wasn't there when the shooting happened but it did create some type of traumatic stress for me, similar, but not the same as, PTSD. It sticks w me and creates anxiety w me about my kids going to school...

 

over 200 people in the same region were killed that week..

 

I've also heard that on average, those who are homeschooled get a better quality education, probably because of the individualized nature of 1-2 tutors per every 1-5 students.

Go study up on what child actors get tutor wise.

 

Wait what adhd meds have reactions like this? Ritalin? Adderal? Don't think so.

 

It's funny how a lot of these mass shootings/stabbings are done by males.

 

So for 37 yrs we didn't have corrupt leaders? shut the fuck up inbecile

 

Very late seeing and replying to this one.


But "a lot???"..... or almost all of them? I'd say almost all of them.

There is something that happens to males when they are between the ages of 15-29 or so (give or take a couple years) that just doesn't happen to females. I'm not saying all males turn into violent psychopaths... but what I am saying is that given the right set of circumstances, males around those ages are the perfect set of circumstances for dealing with things in that way....and that females don't deal with things the same way. Females are more likely to internalize negative things that happen to them while young male are more likely to lash out like these things.

 

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I read it. So, what year though do (did?) those people believe the world was (or is) supposed to end? Was it last Feb or another year?

 

There's no date for ragnarok.

 

Data, Asmodean, meaning solely true data yielded from the senses of experts.

Will I get an answer for this respecting the modern age (not postmodern).