Speechless.

Is this the new normal??

We can only hope for justice at this point.

and your situation within the hierarchy and cliques rampant on campus determined which restroom you'd use and how you'd fare therein. I don't remember anyone being murdered at school, though there were a few off campus and the high schools near us had some exceptionally violent riots and in-class murders. This was in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the late '60s, early '70s. It had been worse at the school a decade previous.

but violence in schools and colleges has been going on forever

Rare that they actually do anything about it.

Bullying is everywhere in our schools. In my city last week in a middle school a students made death threats to a teacher. The girl
is now at home for a few days with her parents. This is a slap on the wrist. I wish she was in juvenile hall for this, but no. The teacher has plans to leave the country and teach abroad where behavior is better.

Until it's a problem, the kids are pure and innocent, or at least victimized by zero-tolerance policies feeding the school-to-prison pipeline, and all police need to be out of the schools. The problem isn't the kids or their behavior, but the schools and victimizers. Most of the posters here say only bad things about schools that take preventive measures, because the only thing they see, the only data or incidents that actually exist, are those that show kids as victims. Millions of kids, but 5 or 6 incidents cover the whole range of incidents, esp. those that involve a race difference (and not white/Latino, but specifically *the* race difference, white and black).


Unless it is a problem, then schools that don't address this quickly and definitively are to blame for the violence and bad behavior, and schools that it's happened in are immediately judged guilty. Then those who feel sorry for the victims of student violence speak up in force, and those who assume that the adults must always be the aggressors shut up. I have to assume it's because they see the subject line and it looks like ". . . . . . . . . ." and when their eye passes beyond it's gone and never existed.

The minimum acceptable line is to have police and administrators that never make mistakes, because if they make a mistake those heavily into "don't judge me" are the lord high executioner with powdered wig and ceremonial robes. The OT god could take strictness lessons from them--there can be no deviation from the one true path, neither a picometer to the right nor a picometer to the right of the micrometer-wide path. The administrators and police must be non-human, because their judges are inhuman.

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