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True. Sadly the reaction is to over react. Schools today are much more tightly locked down than when I went, and the restrictions insane. No locker stops, no bags to carry your books, and people wonder why.
Its true, treat people like dirt, they become dirt. Unfortunately, that's the US education system today. Goto school and learn to conform. Be a sheep. Baaaaa.
This post by Bob in another thread got me thinking:
While there is definitely much legitimate concern regarding school violence and drug use, are we as a society overreacting and treating the average student as if he or she is just waiting to commit a crime.
One example of this, IMO, are all of these ZERO TOLERANCE policies (that seem at times to be more for the benefit of the school administrators and politicians, not students) that are so rigidly and often ridiculously enforced.
Also, I'd like to make a point that in many of these incidents, Columbine in particular, the problem was not that the students of the school had lockers, were not searched randomly, etc., because the killers cut school that day anyway and showed up armed to campus after school had already commenced -the true failure in many of these incidents was the relevant adult's (parents, school staff, sometimes law enforcement agencies, even) did not take action even with so many warning signs.
I think that students need to be able to TRUST their administrators and that that, not treating ALL students as potential spree killers and drug dealers/users, is the answer. Students who trust their administrators, teachers and parents are far more likely to come forward IN ADVANCE with important knowledge (intelligence).
Thoughts?