Yeah, -but theres still No Excuse for Jonesboros, Columbines, etc etc etc etc etc.

"Columbine"!?, -I still have a Like and Love for the *Pre*-Columbine Meaning of the Term! -The Flower, that is! Now we got to Drag around this newer, Debased Meaning, -too! Well I'll "Keep the Lovely Flower Up!" All the Same and Nevertheless!....

Its just another area Symptomatic of the considerably Rotted side of our Society etc!

As people like to say with Politics, -Throw the Bums Out! In this sense, -maybe we should just do away with having schools altogether!, for awhile. To Save and Spare ourselves, -as well as the multitude of "Students" who really don't want to Learn, -all the Heartache and Trouble now Rife!

Then, -when they get out in Real Life and the Adult World, -and find out they don't know their Times Tables, -or how to Add or Subtract, -or even how to Read, -or that Washington DC is our Nation's Capital, -etc etc etc. -Maybe then they'll Finally Start Getting Wise! And Finally want to Learn some!

Lets step back into a Time Machine, -and bring back some of those old 1800s Stricto Schoolmasters! I'm not actually Serious about that, -But am all the same I'm Filled with its Spirit!
-I'd just Love to do that piece of Table Turning!,...!

Regarding and "Contrary" to the above, -I Love and Value a lot of the "Softer, New Stuff", -in Educational Techniques etc, that have come out over the last number of decades. Not all now, but many.

But all too many Students, Teachers, Administrators, School Systems, Boards, etc, -have "Abused the Hospitality"! So some Return to something a la the 1800s might be in Order!....

And again, as I've said, -the Shock Treatment of just Dropping the whole Schooling Bag altogether! "You guys don't want to Learn!, -Then Don't! -Sink or Swim!"....

As with Airline Pilots, -Teachers also should have the option of being Armed! And Sure they should be Up and Able to Responsably Exercise such too!

How bout Random, Surprise Strip Searches of Students, -for Weapons, Drugs, and other Contraband, too?! Tuff Times call for Tuff Measures. They Dislike and Don't Want such, -then they can kindly Refrain from Abusing the Hospitality! To begin with.

In my own Experience, -We were Light Years from things like Columbine! Twas Unheard of! As recently as even the 60s! the 70s and such now were Rife enuff with Drugs, -but Columbines and the like even then were ever so Remote!

And this recent "Picking on the Amish", -who never had anything to do with anyone here or their Gripes!, -This only takes old Ultra Lows down to new Such!!!. At least kindly Leave NON-Involvees Alone! And OUT of it!!!

Parochial and Private Schools, as well as Home Schooling, -Vastly do Not seem to have these Problems! In one System , -this more Private one, -the Students Really Want to Learn!, -the Teachers Really Want to Teach, -in the other (with various Exceptions sprinkled thruout), -they Don't!

Its again Societal and Symtomatic. Too Many Students really Don't want to Learn! Too Many Teachers really Don't want to Teach! I'm Sick of them all! Too many of these Students would frankly rather do all sorts of Fun and Bad Stuff! And really don't want to even do whats often just a little bit of Buckling Down, -to Learn! If they'd be as Eager about Learning!, -as they are about the latest Rap Artist, or "New Drug", or something!,...-Then they might Educationally and Academically Get Somewhere!

Also in my own Personal Experience, -though Thank God Years Outside of and Beyond our nowadays often Ultra Sorry Educational System!, -I beleive I came within a few hours of sitting in that McDonalds that Baumhammers shot up, -several years ago. Being White, -I in all Great Likelihood would have been among the victims! This might not be School. But its still the same "UltraSorry and Symtomatic Society"!

"School Police"! (Sneering Chuckles from me now, -though it could well be among the Tuff Measures I now advocate, -here in Today's particular Times and Circumstances), -We Never had!, nor ever Heard of such a thing!, -Back in my Day!,.... [color:"black"] [/color] [email]0311[/email]