This thread may not go well.. but it has to be said...

[DFW]

85. You did explain a thing or two I didn't know about how the system works.

But is doesn't change my experience. You maintain there is a "solution," which implies a problem. I see a situation, not a problem. I note the tone or attitude, but it is not my place to complain about it. I comment, I get trashed, I move on. I don't ban people, and I normally don't trash people. The tone here will be set by who posts. My experience with the jury system won't be the same as others, and I wouldn't expect it to be so. I am not exactly a major player around here, so it's not like DU is somehow poorer for my lack of input into the jury system. DU is not a cancer patient, and I'm not morphine.

I spent my last year of high school at a boarding school I decided to try because I was fed up with the restrictive attitude of my old school in Washington DC when I got back from living in Spain. It turned out to be a place even more restrictive unless you were a member of the "in" crowd, which as a southerner and a first year senior, I was definitely NOT. The "in" crowd was composed mostly of kids of rich New York and Connecticut parents, and I didn't come near qualifying. The school told me they had to maintain certain standards to please the alumni, many of which were conservative, rich donors. Well, now I'm the alumnus, and I get solicitations for donations every few months, which I ignore completely. I got treated like trash while I was there, both by the majority of the students and some of the nastier of the administration. Fair enough, it's their school, but let them get their alumni contributions from the Bush family. My parents paid my tuition, and as far as I'm concerned, our accounts are settled.

I DID give the system a try. I found it a demeaning and insulting experience--insignificant in the large scheme of things, but it left a lasting impression all the same. I have no quarrel with those whose experience gives them a different perspective, and react differently.