http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/21/foiled.plot.ap/index.html "Norman also mentioned bullying and said investigators had learned the suspects liked violent video games." i applaud the fact that they were able to stop this. but to again link video games, and media in gerneral, to this kind of stuff is rediculous. alot of kids play violent video games, and yet never do anything like this. tell me again, what violent video games did Adolf Hitler play??????? did Pol Pot like the Mortal Kombat series?????? i bet Charles Whitman loved the deer hunter series
They should be sentenced to a federal pound me in the ass prison and be forced to play dodgeball and butts up for 25 years with no option for parole till year 20.
How dumb are these kids to begin with? I mean, posting it on a website? Yea the Internet is a medium available only to frustrated bullied teenagers....geez. Also, when are they going to learn to just get over such dumb childish school behavior...it's sad enough the only response they can muster up is violence. Put these kids to 12 hour labour on a farm somewhere and I'll guarantee, they'll tear off their posters and cancel their blog subscriptions.
Given that they knew when Hitler's birthday was, it sounds like maybe they actually stayed awake in history class.
Anyone who has ever been in a teaching position, knows that stopping bullies is a very hard thing to do from a teacher's point of view. Most of the time, if the person being bullied or one of his friends doesn't come forward, there isn't much that can be done, as most of the time, you aren't aware of it. Most bullies know better than to display their anti-social behaviour in front of a teacher.
Next to impossible unless the kid comes forward, which is extremely unlikely. It's an unspoken rule amoung teenage boys that they won't tattle on each other.
And frankly, there's individual "bullying" and clique "bullying". The antisocial thug is portrayed as the common bully in American culture, but that's exactly the same sort of anti-social individual that grows up to be an "Angry Young Man" and can be involved in all sorts of problems - but is very rarely part of what's going on here. The "bullies" that lead to situations like Columbine aren't the loner-thug bullies. In fact, while movies may portray a ring-leader Eddie Haskell type, in reality, the bullying is mostly social ostracization. It's year after year of clique-sanctioned group behaviour, and rarely any premeditated one on one situation. That makes it far more difficult for outsiders to diagnose. Kids, afterall, need to learn how to socialize and interact. And most "insiders" (the kids) obviously don't have decades of experience to understand that a situation has gone too far, or is out of the ordinary. There is no easy answer.
There have always been cliques. There have always been bullies, losers, loners, and outcasts. What has changed in the past 10 years or so to prompt this kind of violent reaction to what seem to be the normal social pressures of high school?