When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
Education is a vacine for violence.
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
Education is the vaccine for violence.
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