i'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. i just went to the website that _you_ mentioned, aft.org and they showed that the average teacher salary is about $40,000, and the average new teacher salary is about $26,000. i would hardly say that's a good salary. i don't even have a college education, and i make over $35,000.
i wasn't extremely unpopular in h.s.. but i certainly wasn't a part of the "popular" crowd. i didn't really go to many parties or date the football players. i have been on the internet since i was ten (i'm almost 19 now) and i am a poster child for female geeks. i only had two boyfriends in h.s. and neither relationship lasted long. i wasn't very attractive, and was picked on by the more popular kids. and as a result of such redicule, i can sypathize somewhat w/the killers.. they slowly grew to hate the other kids, and obviously their parents did not care much for them, because they failed to notice that their children were suffering so much. but now i am in college. and i have changed a lot sinch h.s. i have cut my hair, and learned more about make up, and bought new clothes.. i am quite a bit more attractive now then i was then. i have a wonderful boyfriend whom i love and several friends. i go to a huge school (texas a&m) yet i do not feel small and insignificant, as i once did in h.s. i was one in 1200, now i am 1 in 43,000. i really believe that those two boys had some serious issues. and while the internet and t.v. and video games are not entirely responsible for what happened in littleton, i believe that the news industry needs to be more careful just what they broadcast. i'm pretty sure that if the media didn't focus so much attention on school shotings this past year, those two boys would never had thought to kill their classmates like that. and while quake itself does not necissarily promote violence, do you really think that the kids would have known exactly what weapons to purchase to get the effect they wanted? you learn quite a bit about guns and shooting from games like quake, as an old userfriendly comic strip pointed out. i don't think that games like quake should be taken off the market, but i do believe that parents need to talk to their children and be sure that they are stable, and that they understand that what goes on in that quake game needs to stay there. and i feel that the news industry should stop sensationalizing things. it's silly to think that the internet had more to do w/those shootings than nbc and abc...
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i'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. i just went to the website that _you_ mentioned, aft.org and they showed that the average teacher salary is about $40,000, and the average new teacher salary is about $26,000. i would hardly say that's a good salary. i don't even have a college education, and i make over $35,000.
i just dl'd netscape 4.7 for win95/98/nt. and will upload it to my site soon. mirror will be here:
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i wasn't extremely unpopular in h.s.. but i certainly wasn't a part of the "popular" crowd. i didn't really go to many parties or date the football players. i have been on the internet since i was ten (i'm almost 19 now) and i am a poster child for female geeks. i only had two boyfriends in h.s. and neither relationship lasted long. i wasn't very attractive, and was picked on by the more popular kids. and as a result of such redicule, i can sypathize somewhat w/the killers.. they slowly grew to hate the other kids, and obviously their parents did not care much for them, because they failed to notice that their children were suffering so much. but now i am in college. and i have changed a lot sinch h.s. i have cut my hair, and learned more about make up, and bought new clothes.. i am quite a bit more attractive now then i was then. i have a wonderful boyfriend whom i love and several friends. i go to a huge school (texas a&m) yet i do not feel small and insignificant, as i once did in h.s. i was one in 1200, now i am 1 in 43,000. i really believe that those two boys had some serious issues. and while the internet and t.v. and video games are not entirely responsible for what happened in littleton, i believe that the news industry needs to be more careful just what they broadcast. i'm pretty sure that if the media didn't focus so much attention on school shotings this past year, those two boys would never had thought to kill their classmates like that. and while quake itself does not necissarily promote violence, do you really think that the kids would have known exactly what weapons to purchase to get the effect they wanted? you learn quite a bit about guns and shooting from games like quake, as an old userfriendly comic strip pointed out. i don't think that games like quake should be taken off the market, but i do believe that parents need to talk to their children and be sure that they are stable, and that they understand that what goes on in that quake game needs to stay there. and i feel that the news industry should stop sensationalizing things. it's silly to think that the internet had more to do w/those shootings than nbc and abc...