Excuse me, but get your face slashed open in a locker room sometime because of your sexual orientation (even though you're respecting your fellow patrons' privacy) and see how you feel. Apparently, this isn't an instance of "four schools" out of all of them if so many people are coming forward and saying "Something similar happened at my school."
This is just a symptom of a much greater disease in America. We are giving up our civil liberties because there's some fantastically simple minded folks who vote without looking at both candidates seriously. For instance, in Michigan, a lot of citizens don't like Governor Granholm. So, they're deciding to vote against her. Note: they're not voting for the other guy, they're voting against her. However, what many people are doing is not looking into his stands. He's as right wing as they get, and yet, even those who are very left wing are going to be voting for him because they blame Granholm for our economic decline here. It's the nature of being uninformed and voting for somebody based on only one or two characteristics as opposed to the whole package that is threatening to tear us of our rights. In the words of Aesop:
"We put our petty theives in prison. We put our dangerous ones in office."
Frankly, this kind of thing happens all the time. High Schools are becoming less an institution of learning and more an institution of mass propaganda, control, and, dare I say it? tyranny. In the country school I hail from, there are less than a thousand students, and almost ten employees at the school whose sole purpose is to keep the 200 students at a time who are at lunch under firm control. If I had a dollar for every time a "Nazi" as we call them told me to take off my presription glasses because of their tint (to reduce glare due to hours in front of a computer screen daily), I would most certainly not be pinching pennies to buy a car that fits the school parking lot specs. Recently, a pair of freshmen were suspended for two weeks for alleged homosexual promiscuity that managed to find its way to the net. As for the students being harrassed because of the closed minded opinions towards anybody who isn't straight and narrow, we more frequently get treated to disciplinary actions due to our responses in self-defense than those who harrass us (Even though there's a "Zero Tolerance" policy towards harrassment in our school manual).
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Excuse me, but get your face slashed open in a locker room sometime because of your sexual orientation (even though you're respecting your fellow patrons' privacy) and see how you feel. Apparently, this isn't an instance of "four schools" out of all of them if so many people are coming forward and saying "Something similar happened at my school." This is just a symptom of a much greater disease in America. We are giving up our civil liberties because there's some fantastically simple minded folks who vote without looking at both candidates seriously. For instance, in Michigan, a lot of citizens don't like Governor Granholm. So, they're deciding to vote against her. Note: they're not voting for the other guy, they're voting against her. However, what many people are doing is not looking into his stands. He's as right wing as they get, and yet, even those who are very left wing are going to be voting for him because they blame Granholm for our economic decline here. It's the nature of being uninformed and voting for somebody based on only one or two characteristics as opposed to the whole package that is threatening to tear us of our rights. In the words of Aesop: "We put our petty theives in prison. We put our dangerous ones in office."
Frankly, this kind of thing happens all the time. High Schools are becoming less an institution of learning and more an institution of mass propaganda, control, and, dare I say it? tyranny. In the country school I hail from, there are less than a thousand students, and almost ten employees at the school whose sole purpose is to keep the 200 students at a time who are at lunch under firm control. If I had a dollar for every time a "Nazi" as we call them told me to take off my presription glasses because of their tint (to reduce glare due to hours in front of a computer screen daily), I would most certainly not be pinching pennies to buy a car that fits the school parking lot specs. Recently, a pair of freshmen were suspended for two weeks for alleged homosexual promiscuity that managed to find its way to the net. As for the students being harrassed because of the closed minded opinions towards anybody who isn't straight and narrow, we more frequently get treated to disciplinary actions due to our responses in self-defense than those who harrass us (Even though there's a "Zero Tolerance" policy towards harrassment in our school manual).