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Originally posted by Amaretto Sour
Ahh, seriously.. I'm not disagreeing with you. I AM, however, saying that in the grand scheme of things, little guy didn't even have a real gun - the whole cotton-pickin' thing was for attention, and he got it: he was shot. So.. I will rephrase. It's a shame that a situation involving a young boy begging for attention culminated into him being shot by someone doing their job.
I don't believe you're assuming that *I* take the tone of "bad policeman/good kids (regardless of the hell you raise)", because that's not my style. I will, however, wonder how it got this far. As I said in my first post, what is going on for our youth to resort to violence and gun threats and attempted suicide to get attention? I don't feel sorry for that boy - I don't feel sorry for anyone who can recklessly put other lives in danger like that. But I don't deny that there's some emotional disturbance there that, if checked and maintained, could have prevented this. That's where my concern is - as a future teacher, I look to see how I could prevent this from happening at MY future school.
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I'm terribly sorry if I came off that way. I get angry when I hear of kids who are not heard, who turn to this type of violence. It angers me as a counselor, and as a human being. It angers me as a person who grew up in a "suicide family" - no one in his family will ever be the same. Nor will any of the other students, the faculty, or their families - all in one moment. Truly, this is a sad and horrifying experience.
You make excellent points, and one can see that you'll be a good teacher. I wish there were more like you!
BTW, Yahoo has the teenager
brain dead.
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