if you choose to be different, choose to alienate people, choose to be anti-social, you cannot complain because your high school teachers or peers don't embrace your lifestyle or even understand it.
This is not about wanting to have your chosen way of life embraced or understood by others...is about having it respected by others.
People have the right to not embarace a certain lifestyle if they don't like it, and many don't even have the background or ability to understand different lifestyles...but we all, as humans, should respect the lifestyle of others around us, be it geeks or jocks, gay or 'straight', or whatever the heck you want to compare.
Respect is the key...understanding would be a bonus.
Vox
Re:hmm, where are your gun-laws now, Canada?
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Actually the URL was misstyped, it has an extra space in the.html part...the right URL is
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html ?s=v/nm/19990428/ts/canada_shooting_1.ht ml
I'm mexican, and let me tell you something...we have as bad a time as the americans do (I studied my sophmore year in the US)...the difference is that most times (at least in the schools I was at) the school accepts and protects those that are different in a possitive way. By this I mean...if you are a nerd/geek/whatever the system WILL protect you from the jocks and preppies if they harass you in any way...in some schools we even have two separate groups, one for "normal" students, one for "special" students. The special students groups usually have lots more freedom than the normal ones, including the chance of working in any subject you want and stuff like that.
The one thing I dislik about this whole thing is that this happens only in private schools, and not in many (proly around 15% of private schools, which would be around 1.5% of all schools or less). But in those schools that don't have special programs, the students that are different are, at least, protected when attacked by their pears...which may be why we haven't had many shootings like this happen (I know of 2 in the last 10 years, and one of them was drug-related and the second one was a "family feud" kind of thing).
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if you choose to be different, choose to alienate people, choose to be anti-social, you cannot complain because your high school teachers or peers don't embrace your lifestyle or even understand it.
This is not about wanting to have your chosen way of life embraced or understood by others...is about having it respected by others.
People have the right to not embarace a certain lifestyle if they don't like it, and many don't even have the background or ability to understand different lifestyles...but we all, as humans, should respect the lifestyle of others around us, be it geeks or jocks, gay or 'straight', or whatever the heck you want to compare.
Respect is the key...understanding would be a bonus.
Vox
Actually the URL was misstyped, it has an extra space in the .html part...the right URL is
l ?s=v/nm/19990428/ts/canada_shooting_1.ht ml
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.htm
And there's a story there...unfrotunately
Vox
"I'm A Linux Punk!" w/ a pic or tux in a leather jacket and wearing sunglasses.
:) If somebody makes these, I want one! :)
Now...that's one I like!
Vox
I'm mexican, and let me tell you something...we have as bad a time as the americans do (I studied my sophmore year in the US)...the difference is that most times (at least in the schools I was at) the school accepts and protects those that are different in a possitive way. By this I mean...if you are a nerd/geek/whatever the system WILL protect you from the jocks and preppies if they harass you in any way...in some schools we even have two separate groups, one for "normal" students, one for "special" students. The special students groups usually have lots more freedom than the normal ones, including the chance of working in any subject you want and stuff like that.
:)
The one thing I dislik about this whole thing is that this happens only in private schools, and not in many (proly around 15% of private schools, which would be around 1.5% of all schools or less). But in those schools that don't have special programs, the students that are different are, at least, protected when attacked by their pears...which may be why we haven't had many shootings like this happen (I know of 2 in the last 10 years, and one of them was drug-related and the second one was a "family feud" kind of thing).
Just my 20 pesos (that's 2 cents in USDlls