Child stabbed to death by a fellow student. [UPDATED!]
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Solution: Outlaw knives.
With that out of the way, we continue.
I teach at the largest school in the state of North Carolina. Just last year, we had a minor altercation involving a tennis ball escalate to a group beatdown. Two students were tossing a ball down a hallway, and it got away from them, hitting another student. This student got angry and somehow this lead to him being beat down by the two original kids and a friend of theirs. The victim was beaten so badly that there was blood all over the lockers and hallway, and he needed several reconstructive surgeries on his face.
This sort of thing is isn't frequent enough to be called pandemic, but it does happen, and it's always appalling. I don't know that I see an immediate solution because it's the result of numerous factors from gang involvement to racial tension. At the risk of oversimplification, I think you can distill it down to people not understanding what's proper when interacting with others. Each is so quick to take a defensive or aggressive stance that it's often difficult to resolve things peacefully. On the other side of that, where a mostly harmless, cathartic fight might relieve some pressure, untapped aggression takes control because students don't just argue and bystanders don't just stand by. The students want to seriously harm one another, and their friends and peers want to instigate these fights.
With that out of the way, we continue.
I teach at the largest school in the state of North Carolina. Just last year, we had a minor altercation involving a tennis ball escalate to a group beatdown. Two students were tossing a ball down a hallway, and it got away from them, hitting another student. This student got angry and somehow this lead to him being beat down by the two original kids and a friend of theirs. The victim was beaten so badly that there was blood all over the lockers and hallway, and he needed several reconstructive surgeries on his face.
This sort of thing is isn't frequent enough to be called pandemic, but it does happen, and it's always appalling. I don't know that I see an immediate solution because it's the result of numerous factors from gang involvement to racial tension. At the risk of oversimplification, I think you can distill it down to people not understanding what's proper when interacting with others. Each is so quick to take a defensive or aggressive stance that it's often difficult to resolve things peacefully. On the other side of that, where a mostly harmless, cathartic fight might relieve some pressure, untapped aggression takes control because students don't just argue and bystanders don't just stand by. The students want to seriously harm one another, and their friends and peers want to instigate these fights.
All these damn video games are stabbing simulators! They buy the game, the game brings a knife, and they go a' stabbin' willy nilly! I blame games and the hippity hop!
HOLY SHIT!!! I JUST LISTENED TO THE CHORUS OF THAT SONG JUST AS I READ THAT LINE!!! i think God is telling me something...MercurySteam said:
kill everyone at my old school?
hmm, its funny how few aussies are left in australia, isnt it?MercurySteam said:
funny, i just finished school, and i thought all of the current yr 11s are dipshits...trueluigi7 said:
reverse garden-is-always-greener thinking?
I remember a while ago there was a kid that was constanly getting bullied. The parents were called in (and of course they gave the "My child would never do that" speech), called groups of kids in to have talks with the guidence counslar, we even had a school wide assmebly to talk about teaseing, bullying and other stuff.
But the teaseing and bullying would not stop....Until
One day I heard the kid that was being bullied took a some 600 page math book and begin beating the kid besides the head over and over. By time the teacher got over there the bully was beat up and bloody and of course the parents were pissed off. My point most of the violence that takes place I see is kids being pushed too far and they beat a kid down that's messing with them.
And I hate to say it... sometimes that's the only way bullies stop if someone beats them down.
But the teaseing and bullying would not stop....Until
One day I heard the kid that was being bullied took a some 600 page math book and begin beating the kid besides the head over and over. By time the teacher got over there the bully was beat up and bloody and of course the parents were pissed off. My point most of the violence that takes place I see is kids being pushed too far and they beat a kid down that's messing with them.
And I hate to say it... sometimes that's the only way bullies stop if someone beats them down.
There has probably been many stabbings at my school, no recent ones I know of though. My school is horrible though. Some girl killed herself by having an overdose on HORSE TRANQUILIZERS (why?) recently-ish.
Evidently, I didn't go to the right schools. All we had was the usual pushing and shoving playground stuff. The odd poking with a maths compass, but whatcha gonna do?
I've said for a while now that every generation gets worse as time goes on. It does seem like each class after mine has more immature douchebags and they take longer to grow up. My history teacher may just be getting old and cranky, but he's openly said that my class is the most immature he's seen in his 35 years teaching at this place.MercurySteam said:
I find it funny,My sisters only 2 years younger than me,and she's such a massive shit she wears a full body diaper,and acts that way because she can't control her hormones.She's an 8th grader.10th here,and personally,one of which who isn't full of rage and pride and acts better than everyone.
We go to a public school in a ghetto town (i say "we" btw, to refer to the gentleman sitting to my left) and people get stabbed ALL THE TIME. Once, a guy tried to stab another guy, but a third (who had nothing to do with the original incident) panicked, and shot both of them. they were seniors, and it was outside of school. but still...
and as for the grades below me, I'm a junior in high school, and the grades below mine are definitely getting worse. My friends and i usually refer to them as "prostitots."
and as for the grades below me, I'm a junior in high school, and the grades below mine are definitely getting worse. My friends and i usually refer to them as "prostitots."
well at our school the problem is that the immigrants feel rather alianated and get very uncertain (even though 50% of the school are immegrants) but anyways this results in them being sortof paranoid and thinking everything u say to them is an attack and then they react in the primitive way of fighting...
once there was a big fight with a basball bat and some immagrants there families in front of the school but they're all in jail now..
and someone one's threatened me with babyscicors and then I put him in an armbar and nobody got hurt
but you see with us nobody gets hurt the main reason for that is that if there's a fight it's between an immigrant with a weapon and I white person, now the white person would only be ni the fight if he was one of teh many judoka's or krav maga practisers and the imegrant would only be in the fight has a weapon, but they always get disarmed and put ina hold... and all the fights which are other things then this aren't real fights
SO ONE MORE TIME IM NOT BLAMING THE IMMAGRANTS IT'S JUST THAT THANKS TO THE FUCKERS WHO CAME UPW TIH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT THEY FEEL UNCERTAIN AND ANYONE ON CERTAIN IS MORE LIKELY TO REACT IN VIOLENCE IF THEY THAT THAT WOULD BE A POSITIVE OUTCOME, plus for somereason they dont walk away that fast...
once there was a big fight with a basball bat and some immagrants there families in front of the school but they're all in jail now..
and someone one's threatened me with babyscicors and then I put him in an armbar and nobody got hurt
but you see with us nobody gets hurt the main reason for that is that if there's a fight it's between an immigrant with a weapon and I white person, now the white person would only be ni the fight if he was one of teh many judoka's or krav maga practisers and the imegrant would only be in the fight has a weapon, but they always get disarmed and put ina hold... and all the fights which are other things then this aren't real fights
SO ONE MORE TIME IM NOT BLAMING THE IMMAGRANTS IT'S JUST THAT THANKS TO THE FUCKERS WHO CAME UPW TIH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT THEY FEEL UNCERTAIN AND ANYONE ON CERTAIN IS MORE LIKELY TO REACT IN VIOLENCE IF THEY THAT THAT WOULD BE A POSITIVE OUTCOME, plus for somereason they dont walk away that fast...
Scarily enough, this happened right across the bay from me. The St. Pat's guys were always really nice and this was completely out of the blue.
I've been in a classroom where a teenager has thrown a desk at the teacher. That was frightening. As for the years below me, I can say with absolute honesty that they were a bunch of idiots with a ludicrous amount of disrespect for seniors. When I started high school, we were TERRIFIED the seniors would flush our heads down the loo. This lot of upstarts knew we couldn't and acted like THEY ran the school. Pfft.
Funnily enough, those juniors were last year's seniors and are copping it like we did. Hah!
I've been in a classroom where a teenager has thrown a desk at the teacher. That was frightening. As for the years below me, I can say with absolute honesty that they were a bunch of idiots with a ludicrous amount of disrespect for seniors. When I started high school, we were TERRIFIED the seniors would flush our heads down the loo. This lot of upstarts knew we couldn't and acted like THEY ran the school. Pfft.
Funnily enough, those juniors were last year's seniors and are copping it like we did. Hah!
Nothing ever this serious when I was at school.
But as a mother whose daughter is in primary school and soon bringing another into this world, this kinda story scares the shit outta me as I'm sure it does most parents.
So many incidents like this are completely unprovoked and any kid in a classroom could be a victim, it's terrifying.
But as a mother whose daughter is in primary school and soon bringing another into this world, this kinda story scares the shit outta me as I'm sure it does most parents.
So many incidents like this are completely unprovoked and any kid in a classroom could be a victim, it's terrifying.