[overflow] Re: GHHS

[Lee Gold <leeway@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Holly wrote:
> 
> 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?

Agreed.

> 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.

I stopped telling my parents what I was going through after my father
offered either to send me away to a boarding school or to get me
accustomed to all the name calling I was getting by telling him
all the names they called me so he could call me them too and thus
help me get used to them.  

I think the reason I held on was books and my dog and knowing I
had my mother's total love, even though she was unwilling to do
anything to help protect me.  

Barry's parents actually went down to the school a time or two
he tells me and yelled at teachers until he was treated right.
My parents would never have done anything like that.  Perhaps
that's one reason Barry is a sunnier personality than I am.

--Lee