Teachers fake gunman attack on sixth graders

[Wilson_]

have you guys seen this? its messed up

http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/13/faked.attack.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories


discuss

[MaddGIJoe]

While its not easy to prepare for school shootings in case they do occur... I don't think this is the way.  Maybe a couple of weeks dedicated to teach students what to-do when a thing like this happens?

[Lazerblade]

This was quite possibly one of the worst reactions seen yet to the whole school shootings scene. The worst thing any school can do is bring more publicity to these psychotic anti-socials. The press makes it bad enough, marking each and every incident with a "historical day of reckoning". Schools should know better.

I could probably bring about several hundred ideas to eliminate this sort of thing from happening, but ultimately it boils down to parents and adults getting involved, which isn't likely to happen since everyone thinks their kids would never do this sort of thing. "It's just a phase he's going through. He'll grow out of it." "My kid would never do that." "That kid's parents are to blame. They didn't pay enough attention to their kids. My kids hang out with better friends."

Blah Blah Blah. The blame must fall on someone or something. Usually it's pop culture. Or the parents off the child that does the act, not the parents of the children that pushed that particular child to such extremes.

Wake up world. You're raising children who think that society is a cut-throat world where in order to succeed you can't just be good, you have to be the best and you have to make every one of your peers feel that they are insignificant. When we were kids, there were bullies, but they just wanted us to fear them so we'd never know how horrible their lives were. Now, those same bullies are raising kids of their own, making those kids feel insignificant. Or the new bullies in school hear about all the bullshit their parents went through and feel they have to top it because life is such a competition.

Don't get me wrong. We should all strive to be better. But we shouldn't strive to be remembered for who we conquered. Instead, we should strive to be the best AND to contribute positively to society. I want to be remembered for what I've accomplished, but also for who I've helped to accomplish their life goals as well.

Video games don't make killers. Using video games to babysit your kids so the only life lessons they gain are from a controller and a TV screen- that's what makes killers.

[Dr.Jeckyl]

yeah not the way i'd do it.

[RogueDOC]

That was screwed up. Not the way to do it.

[BOBK]

Video games don't make killers. Using video games to babysit your kids so the only life lessons they gain are from a controller and a TV screen- that's what makes killers.

that was put very well

[Lazerblade]

And now religious freaks are blaming incidents such as Columbine, WV, and other school-related incidents on the fact that "God has been removed from the schools, where he is needed the most"...

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/23/afa-blames-school-shootings-on-lack-of-prayer-spankings/

They've been doing this for years of course, but now they're cashing in on this shit. How is it OK for religion to profit from tragedy and yet condemn the media and the families of those that are lost to tragedy when they do the same thing?

Religion is evil. It corrupts the mind and twists reality to its own motives. Perhaps this discussion should be moved to politics and religion, because anything this big in the media is bound to be pounced on by both religion and politics like an injured zebra by a den of lions.

[MindlessOath]

the war in afgan is about religon and unfair justice, the war in schools is religon too... i think religon shouldnt be apart of schools or government because it causes far more harm than good! its what causes issues.

not that religon is bad, its not persay, but it can be used for bad, and those people think nothing of their actions and preach that its good because of the religon they are in (any religon).

hey im not dissing your religon, im just saying it needs to stay out of government and schools etc.

what would be nice is if you want to buy or own a gun there should be a better processes to weed out the phyco's.
someone at my work wants to buy a gun, he is phyco, but not legaly  -  lets say he should never have a gun, wtf if he buys one he could shoot up the workplace, whats that about?  there really is no way to tell if people are going to go crazy or start some crap so the process isnt great - he could steel mom and dads guns if they wanted - buy them on the black market or off the street - its easy i seen guns for sale all the time, this world is crazy man there is so little anyone can do, and putting blame is not the greatest idea either.

[Lazerblade]

FYI, MO, I'm atheist. But that isn't why I feel religion shouldn't be in schools. I feel that religion isn't going to cure the apathy students have toward each other or education in general.

I feel that parents need to step up and take responsibility for the shit they shovel into their kids' heads, or the lack of real-world education they're giving their kids by ignoring the issues or "passing the buck" to media, culture, and their childrens' peers. I believe the system can work- if and only if parents play their part. As a parent and a modern pop culture consumer, I know what kids get exposed to. I also know how to explain the message behind the words and images today's kids are being exposed to. The question is, how many of you can say the same? And what can we as a group do? I think that's the question being asked. Does anyone have an answer?

[MindlessOath]

your right, i thought this myself, its the parents who dont parent there kids like they should, but they dont know this, and how are they suppose to know if they were not brought up like they should have been?  honestly i dont know, but i see this bad parenting and i want to be a good parent when my time comes, but man, how do i know whats right or wrong... i guess i could do what people dont do, and read a damn book or two about it, i dunno, but things are not going to get fixed because parents will never be great parents (i mean the parent that they should be). i think there is a differnce between being nice to your kids and being a parent, cause you can be nice and give your kid anything and thats not the same as being a parent which teaches your kids instead of depending on schools to do it all for you, and all the moral and ethical things too.