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Date: 2025-03-31 12:23 am (UTC)Murder, however, is wild for how little it takes to commit or to be killed by someone, and there is no age requirement for it. Youngest murderer I can recall off the top of my head was about 8 years old. Just for the heck of it.
I'm even more interested in why there seems to be so much more trouble in schools these days. Maybe I'm just more aware of it. My brother is a high school teacher in one of The Best school districts in the state ($$$), and he's heard of some fights in school but not had any in his own classroom, but the bigger issue he faces is kids mouthing off with slurs and hate speech. Just right in class, with the teacher very obviously within earshot.
There's also something to be said that there's a shortage of teachers around here. Not only is the pay not very good, although it never has been, but some quit due to fearing the school environment and having no means of controlling the students and classrooms. There's no standard of discipline.
I don't know if it's something in the previous generations as parents, the age of immediacy with technology, the lowering grade standards and passing students who would literally be flunking when I was in school, the weird attitude towards children while wanting them to act like adults only in certain ways and be aware yet still children, the free time kids have no versus when they'd work when not in school, or what. Just from your review, I think more could be taken from it than just reasons behind a killer kid's actions. His should be an extreme case, so lesser crimes can be overlooked. They removed that one trouble-maker, and everyone knows, so he's the example of "Look how well we handled this. We at this school care about our students and faculty. Now back to our regularly scheduled BS..." A fifth part could've been made on how things change, if at all.
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