We know that most of these tragic mass school killer types are ostracized loners, often picked on cruelly by other "upstanding" types.
But the feeling I got was that this student -- no loner but with enough friends to mount some degree of protest -- was trying to pick on the creative writing teacher, and shove her into the role of the ostracized one. I think he seized upon the creative writing directions to deliberately be as upsetting to her as he could be. And that was what he was charged with. The key moment that made me switch my view as to who was the oppressed and who was the oppressor here was the attack on her for baking brownies for her students! I mean, come on, since when does baking brownies for people call for his kind of response? There may not have been a specific threat worded as "i'm going to do such and such to this specific teacher", but the essay is clearly a deliberate attack on this woman.
Consider the possibility that the teacher is a kind sensitive soul, and that the student is just plain mean. I don't think he's a likely shoot-up-the-school type, just a deliberate bully who seems to have been quite accurately charged.
Perhaps one of the other service branches will still take him, but bullying women who bake brownies with threatening talk of mass murder, necrophelia and (perhaps worst to a sensitive soul) being responsible for a mass killing at her own school, well, it doesn't exactly qualify as The Few, The Proud, The US Marines.
Avery Brooks sounds like a high school dropout? And Captain Kirk is wimpy!
What in the world could make you say such an obviously, extremely false thing?
Perhaps you meant to say he sounded like a Shakesperean actor out of one side
of his face, and a high school dropout out of the other? Fans of the original
series should get my point, which isn't very pretty.
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We know that most of these tragic mass school killer types are ostracized loners, often picked on cruelly by other "upstanding" types. But the feeling I got was that this student -- no loner but with enough friends to mount some degree of protest -- was trying to pick on the creative writing teacher, and shove her into the role of the ostracized one. I think he seized upon the creative writing directions to deliberately be as upsetting to her as he could be. And that was what he was charged with. The key moment that made me switch my view as to who was the oppressed and who was the oppressor here was the attack on her for baking brownies for her students! I mean, come on, since when does baking brownies for people call for his kind of response? There may not have been a specific threat worded as "i'm going to do such and such to this specific teacher", but the essay is clearly a deliberate attack on this woman. Consider the possibility that the teacher is a kind sensitive soul, and that the student is just plain mean. I don't think he's a likely shoot-up-the-school type, just a deliberate bully who seems to have been quite accurately charged. Perhaps one of the other service branches will still take him, but bullying women who bake brownies with threatening talk of mass murder, necrophelia and (perhaps worst to a sensitive soul) being responsible for a mass killing at her own school, well, it doesn't exactly qualify as The Few, The Proud, The US Marines.
Avery Brooks sounds like a high school dropout? And Captain Kirk is wimpy! What in the world could make you say such an obviously, extremely false thing? Perhaps you meant to say he sounded like a Shakesperean actor out of one side of his face, and a high school dropout out of the other? Fans of the original series should get my point, which isn't very pretty.