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In reply to the discussion: SF student suspended over Connecticut poem (about school shooter) [View all]Brickbat
(19,339 posts)2. Yes, it would be a horrible thing if anyone tried to understand how this happened, or to try to talk
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Yes, it would be a horrible thing if anyone tried to understand how this happened, or to try to talk
Brickbat
Dec 2012
#2
Really? She "knows why" he pointed a semi-automatic weapon at 6 year old kids & pulled the trigger?
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#6
Yeah! ...Or, we could just dance around a giant fucking straw man made of red herrings.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#8
I think she maybe could benefit from some empathy classes, and/or psychotherapy
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#21
Again, you haven't read the poem. You haven't a clue whether or not empathy was
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#23
Given what I've seen of the poem, she doesn't have a clue as to what this tragedy was about.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#25
Can we see the entire poem or is that the only part that NBC will allow us to see?
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#29
And there it is. I said my friends hadn't seen it. I didn't say no one had seen it.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#68
Weren't you the one, back in October, starting threads about a certain site admin's mom
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#69
OK, Here's the hidden thread. You also characterized it as a word whose use causes
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#83
No. An anonymous person scrawling a well-known anti-woman slur on my house
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#89
...She's NOT being "censored", and I've said I don't think expulsion is warranted here.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#90
I am about as anti-censorship as they come; still one ought to be sensitive to the fact
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#98
I read one line: "I understand the killings... I know why he pulled the trigger"
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#13
She could have said 50 other sentences that might have put it in context...
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#15
I think you would find that schools have an awful lot of latitutude to determine, one,
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#52
And the courts will overrule that and slam the tax payers with quite a bill.
NutmegYankee
Jan 2013
#53
We will see. I'm betting she doesn't get expelled and the suspension is lifted.
NutmegYankee
Jan 2013
#55
There is also a difference between "trying to" understand and stating flat out "i understand"
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#86
"understanding" is quite often the reult of genuine "trying to understand"
BarackTheVote
Jan 2013
#102
Of course, if the teacher had just graded the work and then that student did something awful
hughee99
Jan 2013
#45
politically correct SCHOOLS? sheesh. blargh. san fran? ugh. i'm embarressed 2 be liberal...
farminator3000
Jan 2013
#47
not really, its called a poem...what does spelling have to do with anything?
farminator3000
Jan 2013
#61
And how is anyone supposed to determine that the psycho kid is 'disturbed'?
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#67
That wasn't my question. My question was whether that person saw a problem with the statement.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#93
maybe another student found it and told their parents? kinda sounds like police involved?
farminator3000
Jan 2013
#48
People write dark poetry. Life can be very dark. It's good for people to have an outlet.
Puregonzo1188
Jan 2013
#57
And if a kid does kill themselves/others after their "dark poetry" was found by teachers
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#65
yeah because if someone's emotionally disturbed, the best thing is to institutionall ruin their life
unblock
Jan 2013
#76
The "thought police" are out full time! Often I wonder if the McCarthy era will return. n/t
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#77
I would say the chance she's being idiot outweighs the chance that she's a sociopath by A LOT.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#105
so it is real damn obvious that any cries for help will be punnished at that school
dembotoz
Jan 2013
#111