[lee martell]

I don’t know the whole story. What I do know is this kid is very sick and needs to stay locked up.

At the same time, I have heard of students who earned straight A’s in 95% of there grades, but get a B- in one class. That parent focuses only on that B-, angrily demanding to know why in the world this could have ever happened?

Such a kid feels like a failure. Most kids will try harder to turn that “terrible-horrible-awful” B- into an A next semester. That is the preferred outcome. Ask any Tiger-Mom. Others will quickly grow to resent the source of their anxiety, the parent.

[proud American in Canada]

Let me guess. At the risk of indulging in stereotyping, those students who work harder are Asian.

[proud American in Canada]

That’s not to say that other young people don’t work hard.

I’m sure Neil deGrass Tyson (sp? He’s the narrator of Cosmos and an astrophysicist) was pushed to studying harder. I’m white and my dad reviewed my report card and wasn’t happy with anything less than an A.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

What I do know is this kid is very sick and needs to stay locked up.

I don't know that he's sick. Crazy people aren't able to stage elaborate hoaxes to try to avoid having their crimes discovered. This guy is just a murderous criminal. He belongs in prison for the rest of his life.

[MAAG]

Knew of a kid once who shot his teacher with 1911 for getting his first B.

The bullet deflected off the teacher's glasses and lodge in his cheek.

He stood there saying what the h3ll was that.

Probably thinking something was thrown at him.