It is a stupid policy. But something is very wrong in this country. Kids have become so fragile and hopeless that their lives have no value to them. Anything can send them over the edge. When I was a kid (seventies and early eighties) I never heard of anyone my age committing suicide.
Personally I think not knowing God has a lot to do with it.
Still, as my husband's grandmother told me a few years ago, as we get older we have to guard against hardness of the heart. We can't become so jaded that loss of life becomes an occasion to mock.
Complain about hard hearts and you get called a liberal. That is how robotic FR “conservatism” has gotten in all too many cases.
And yes ma’am, forgetting about God is the very center of the problem. People’s lives fall into rationalized selfishness when they do.
Great post, Kate! Sorry you had to marry Henry!
Yes, I never heard of kids committing suicide over classroom humiliation back in the 60s. I did see one kid (a young boy on the verge of becoming a man) paddled in front of the class for some infraction and I saw the devil enter his face where once had been an angel. Adults must be very careful with children.
Of course, this suicide victim was a man - not a child. As Mattie Ross says in “True Grit”: ‘who knows what is in the human heart?”
But you’re absolutely correct that as we get older we must fight against a hardening of heart. I see it in my own life.