Where Were the Parents At?
Lawrence King is abandoned at birth. Grows up with all kinds of problems. His adoptive parents allow him to go to middle school in full drag sometimes - with makeup.
Brandon McInerney comes from a broken home. Mom's addicted to meth and Dad likes to beat the sh*t out of her from time to time.
Lawrence flirts inappropriately with Brandon almost every day. Thrives off negative attention. Brandon takes out a gun and shoots Larry in the head - twice - during English class.
Naturally it's the assistant principal's fault.
Right.
posted by kate @ 7:07 AM
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Complicated issue, to be sure. Where are the parents, indeed.
Where did a 15 year old get the gun?
I blame the teachers
You're right. In the end, it was both sets of parents' fault but the teachers and adminstrators are at fault too.
From the article you linked:
Larry King was, admittedly, a problematical test case: he was a troubled child who flaunted his sexuality and wielded it like a weapon—it was often his first line of defense.
If a straight student (male or female) was sexually harassing other students, school officials wouldn't have walked on eggshells wondering if they should try to stop it.
It's the gun manufacturers fault. Like Chris Rock said, "Bullets should cost $5000. There would be no more innocent bystanders. He must have done something, they put $30,000 worth of bullets in his @ss!"
John - you have a point. The school officials shouldn't allow sexual harrassment. But just like certain special needs kids do not have the cognitive ability to bully and are acting out for other reasons, I'm not sure this particular kid had the ability to really harrass as it's defined.
Anyway, regardless - the parents (both sides) are the problem here. They brought up two troubled boys and tragedy ensued.
Big surprise.
And as long as we continue to get sidetracked and blame others, this kind of thing will go on and on.
Sadly there is enough blame to go around. There isn't a "golden bb" that caused this whole disaster, but rather a continuing chain of failures.
In my viewpoint, the school does have some culpability here, in that they did not stop this when they could have. They were too worried about a lawsuit when they should have been worried about the environment that was being fostered, with the corresponding decline in education.
No Kate, I told you the problem is that bullets are too cheap. I think Chris Rock and I made the case... closed!
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