What's with all the schoolchildren?!?

[Professor Dan K.]

how about grow some balls (confidence if you lack them) and go do stuff with people, start hanging out with people with your same interests. if one person tells me theyre so misunderstood that nobody would want to be friends with them... that is straight bullshit. i mean im not the most outgoing guy out there, but having friends is a good thing.

also, should bullying be the problem, i mean there are things you can do about that. if its to the point where they wont stop nomatter what you do, start lifting weights, take up boxing or something. hell if someone picked on me and it started to get physical, im not gonna sit there and take fists to my face even if the guy is huge im not just gonna let someone hurt me.

messed up world we live in where people bully each other and cause emotional harm towards others, but like stated above, what can we do to better out world?

[Nochowderforyou]

The only reason I got picked on is because for one, I didn't speak English well, and 2, I wanted to make friends, 3, because I come from the most non-violent place on earth.

When I first came here I couldn't believe how poorly kids treeated one another. I couldn't believe what a person had to do to impress kids to belong.

In Holland, in school, you are ONE, not a group of this, and that, and if you aren't one of those cliques, you are nothing and get a bullseye branded on you.

Kids just need to stop being so judgemental towards how a person looks. Kids never took the time to say 2 words to me to get to know me. Maybe if kids these days would learn something called EMPATHY, RESPECT, and ACCEPTANCE FOR WHO IS DIFFERENT, than maybe these things wouldn't happen. Kids these days are too hung up on appearance, it's like, coorperate Hollywood has taken over Canada, US, and the Uk.

[halosin8r]

also, should bullying be the problem, i mean there are things you can do about that. if its to the point where they wont stop nomatter what you do, start lifting weights, take up boxing or something. hell if someone picked on me and it started to get physical, im not gonna sit there and take fists to my face even if the guy is huge im not just gonna let someone hurt me.

Thats not the case. Mentality set of one individual to another will be different. Your way might work for you, another student may just go to authorities, as another would bring a knife or a gun.

I personally feel that this string of events is a message of some sort. Can't quite ponder what it is.

[crudemood]

Damn, I swear, everytime I log onto Yahoo mail there's ANOTHER blip about some school shooting. There have been 3 in the last 2 weeks for Christ's sake! What's going on here? I look today and now some Amish school in Pennsyvlania was shot up and 6 kids were killed.

And I believe it was the 26th of September that we had another one in Colorado killing one girl and then the killer shot himself. Around the same time there was that old man who tried to pose as a high school student who walked in with a shotgun and held a handful of girls hostage before killing himself.

Seriously, this is starting to get crazy! Are kids just completely off their rockers now-a-days? All I can say is that I'm sure as hell glad I made it out of elementary school alive.

Any comments? Anything? ~

Yeah there was a shooting up here in canada, more specifically in montreal.
the dawsons college shooting. some dude walks into the school with an 1k47 and starts firing at everyone. that was messed up, it was in the news for 3 days.

as the days pass people are getting more evil. i dont get it. smoke and chill out people.. sheesh.

[T®auma]

I was just talking about this the other day. I am happy i am out of school because i wouldnt want to roll up one day after a wake and bake and get shot. That wouldnt be very cool.

[Oneironaut]

Well actually, schools are still very safe places to be. Certainly safer than pretty much anywhere else, when you actually look at the rates of violence in various locations. You're far more likely to get shot on the street or at home than at school; it's just that school shootings are far more dramatic and the media blows them way out of proportion to the point where we think schools are actually dangerous places to be.