It seems pretty funny to me that ANYONE who didn't know these kids can make such bold statements about their motives or beliefs. These kids were suffering some kind of mental imbalance/disorder (I assume we can agree that brutal violent acts are a sign of psychological problems). The fact is these kids committed a terribile crime, then decided to kill themselves. Now no one can know what they were thinking, or what made them do it, or whether they were suffering any abuse from students, teachers, or even a parent. For reasons we will never know, these two boys felt their best option in life was to kill others and then themselves. Where were the teachers and therapists three months ago? A year ago? How many kids have to die by their own hand or others before people realize something is wrong? Finally, who cares if these kids were geeks, nerds, rednecks, goths, gamers, preps or jocks? Every person, regardless of age or social clique has the right to self-respect and freedom of choice. Those of us who have survived the hell of public school need to remember what it was like as we get older so we can make it easier for the next generation. Maybe if we spent more time treating kids like people and less time branding them evil we could actually prevent any more pointless deaths.
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It seems pretty funny to me that ANYONE who didn't know these kids can make such bold statements about their motives or beliefs. These kids were suffering some kind of mental imbalance/disorder (I assume we can agree that brutal violent acts are a sign of psychological problems). The fact is these kids committed a terribile crime, then decided to kill themselves. Now no one can know what they were thinking, or what made them do it, or whether they were suffering any abuse from students, teachers, or even a parent. For reasons we will never know, these two boys felt their best option in life was to kill others and then themselves. Where were the teachers and therapists three months ago? A year ago? How many kids have to die by their own hand or others before people realize something is wrong? Finally, who cares if these kids were geeks, nerds, rednecks, goths, gamers, preps or jocks? Every person, regardless of age or social clique has the right to self-respect and freedom of choice. Those of us who have survived the hell of public school need to remember what it was like as we get older so we can make it easier for the next generation. Maybe if we spent more time treating kids like people and less time branding them evil we could actually prevent any more pointless deaths.