[overflow] Re: GHHS

["Robin Holly" <rfholly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Lee Gold <leeway@mediaone.net> wrote
>> > Well, we can easily draw the line between teasing that involves
>> > physical injury or robbery and other sorts of teasing.  And I'm
>> > surprised that Zero Tolerance advocates don't realize that they're
>> > claiming adults can't exercise judgment, the one area where
>> > adult maturity should pay off.
>> 
>> Exactly.  And of course in practice adults frequently DO exercise judgement
>> and ignore rules that do not apply. 

When I was in junior high school, they pretty much ignored anything that
didn't require hospital treatment.  If there was a lot of parental pressure
they might keep the victim inside during recess which at least restricted
the harassment to what happened when teachers were present.

Is it a surprise that the happiest day I ever spent in that school system
was the day I graduated from high school and knew I could leave and never go
back?  

BTW, my parents did have guns around (my dad was military), and I was taught
how to use them, but I never considered shooting myself (or anyone else).  I
certainly considered other means of suicide, and if I had not had really
terrific parents and a good home environment, I probably would have done it.
 I feel at least as sorry for the shooters in these school tragedies as I do
for any of the victims.

Robin Holly