Word, brother, school administration blames the victim of mundane and routine daily abuses. Plaintiffs are indeed admonished to resolve their own personal problems (a protocol that mysteriously vanishes should the victim draw upon sufficient force to be effective both in communicating their desire for just treatment and in deterring/preventing retaliation for their self-defense). The edict, "Don't be a tattle-tale," is not a problem isolated to school. Human culture, even down to the family unit, has integrated too many checks and balances against defenses for oppressed persons (especially kids). Think back to the last five bully situations your own kids have had. How many of them did you assertively fix for your child's comfort, versus how many you used as a chance to teach them to be tough or resourceful and handle it like a strong independent person? If you don't have that sort of parenting experience yourself, for a template of reference, think back to your own parents, when you wore the little shoes... how often did they actually take your side? Do we take the initiative to show our own kids that it's okay to ask for more help/protection/support than some grown-up authority figures say? I think so, but we should be aware that it will slow that process of "toughening" that our kids need, too, and it is true that nobody likes a tattle-tale. Nobody likes a crazed gunman, either. Choose. Word is born. On the other hand, I think we are at great risk of confusing the issue as we relate Columbine-type situations to bully problem resolutions. Like the author of the WP story you referenced said in closing, the shooters had gotten away from those cut-and-dried issues and ended up doing something more adult in nature: complicated, convoluted, twisted and out of proportion. Speaking of convoluted and out-of-proportion, have you noticed how little actual deviant behavior it takes to incur the negative attention of authorities lately, since the public has reacted to the media-generated "rash" of mass homicides? We live in a culture where: a) Kids want each other dead because they don't want to play nice. b) Kids can be expelled from school and arrested for picking up a dropped note they didn't write that happens to include a morbid joke. c) We can be fired from our jobs because coworkers are allowed to see us become exasperated with difficult work and report "feeling threatened." I gather Pinkerton feels that this little hotline is going to effect something, somewhere? Where/how, exactly...? Thanks for reading.
The great big gaping hole in time travel, of course, is that even if the technology hadn't become accessible YET, the concept of the chronological variable "yet" is undermined by the concept of time travel. If man shall ever master time travel, we would even now (indeed, always, even back to the "beginning of time") experience its full range of consequences, both good and grave. Even the assertion that time is a dimension is debatable.
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Word, brother, school administration blames the victim of mundane and routine daily abuses. Plaintiffs are indeed admonished to resolve their own personal problems (a protocol that mysteriously vanishes should the victim draw upon sufficient force to be effective both in communicating their desire for just treatment and in deterring/preventing retaliation for their self-defense). The edict, "Don't be a tattle-tale," is not a problem isolated to school. Human culture, even down to the family unit, has integrated too many checks and balances against defenses for oppressed persons (especially kids). Think back to the last five bully situations your own kids have had. How many of them did you assertively fix for your child's comfort, versus how many you used as a chance to teach them to be tough or resourceful and handle it like a strong independent person? If you don't have that sort of parenting experience yourself, for a template of reference, think back to your own parents, when you wore the little shoes... how often did they actually take your side? Do we take the initiative to show our own kids that it's okay to ask for more help/protection/support than some grown-up authority figures say? I think so, but we should be aware that it will slow that process of "toughening" that our kids need, too, and it is true that nobody likes a tattle-tale. Nobody likes a crazed gunman, either. Choose. Word is born. On the other hand, I think we are at great risk of confusing the issue as we relate Columbine-type situations to bully problem resolutions. Like the author of the WP story you referenced said in closing, the shooters had gotten away from those cut-and-dried issues and ended up doing something more adult in nature: complicated, convoluted, twisted and out of proportion. Speaking of convoluted and out-of-proportion, have you noticed how little actual deviant behavior it takes to incur the negative attention of authorities lately, since the public has reacted to the media-generated "rash" of mass homicides? We live in a culture where: a) Kids want each other dead because they don't want to play nice. b) Kids can be expelled from school and arrested for picking up a dropped note they didn't write that happens to include a morbid joke. c) We can be fired from our jobs because coworkers are allowed to see us become exasperated with difficult work and report "feeling threatened." I gather Pinkerton feels that this little hotline is going to effect something, somewhere? Where/how, exactly...? Thanks for reading.
The great big gaping hole in time travel, of course, is that even if the technology hadn't become accessible YET, the concept of the chronological variable "yet" is undermined by the concept of time travel. If man shall ever master time travel, we would even now (indeed, always, even back to the "beginning of time") experience its full range of consequences, both good and grave. Even the assertion that time is a dimension is debatable.