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Collarado killings, Colombine high
Posted by: megan ( Aust, Australia ) on November 04, 1999 at 18:58:16:
To lay the blame on any one particular person, organisation, or child is impossible to do. As most of us have been through the schooling system, peer pressure, unreal expectations and all that jazz, we should ask ourselves this question?
Pushed to the limit, could my child resort to killing ?
Obviously these children (refering to the killers) had been pushed to the very limit by peers, victimised if you will- for being different.
I would bet my last cent that every student in Colombine High school, now respects one another to a far greater extent because of the outsiders. Unfortunately this one particular school learnt the hard way about harrasment. We could sit around and play the blaming game for years, but what we need to realise is that it is all a part of growimg up. Every generation is placed under the same amount of pressure, each childs reaction is always different, in this case these 2 students were not strong enough to make it through and they made a very big cry for help by the means of murder. In this case it was just too late. Respect each other, biggoting costs lives
Megan
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