Posted on 05/16/2004 8:12:03 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
Edited on 05/17/2004 5:55:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hmmmm...my view of the parents are shifting.
These parents owe no one an apology.
It's peculiar that the NY Times is not doing op-eds with the father of the black kid that Klebold called a n****r before they shot him in the face. Another pathetic hypocritical liberal whitewash by the NY Crimes.
They're taking the easy road now by letting her go but as I always say you either pay your dues early - by consistent discipline - and enjoy the fruits of that when they're teens and taller than you, OR you PAY DEARLY later when they're surly, disrespectful young adults and you no longer have control.
I have a feeling you're not going to like your granddaughter much when she's 13.
Only because it's allowed. Replace 'public or private school' with 'workplace' and see how ridiculous it sounds. This doesn't commonly happen in adult environments because the result would be job loss and/or lawyers and financial penalties. If the schools were really serious about bullying they'd get rid of the problem children but they're not, nor are the school districts or the parents of the bullies.
You and I wouldn't shrug and say 'well, that's the way it is' if our co-workers bullied us but it's accepted among children as uncontrollable.
Amen to that, grellis. I totally agree.
The Klebold boy had *way* too much privacy to be able to hide so much of what he was doing.
I'm sure I don't know every single thing my children do or say, but there isn't much that gets by my husband and me. Besides, most of our kids share a room with a sibling, so they'd have to get it by them too. :)
I'm only saying that it's a tragedy when people knowingly put their children in situations where they're abused, and that the adults would not for one moment put up with it if it happened to them, the adults.
Except it was Dylan and Eric doing the bullying. They felt themselves above the jocks. They wanted everyone to die, not just a certain group. They'd already been turned in for crossing the line of mere bullying to physical confrontations and threats of other kids.
Man, he is so freaking ugly.
Who tied the teachers' hand? It was those same parents who think their little angels do no wrong.
Oh, puleez! Granted the day a kid turns into a teenage their parents suddenly are seen as drooling vegetables who aren't worthy of the time of day, however there's nothing to stop those same parents from looking in the kid's room and take action if they find an arsenal and pipe bombs.
I agree completely. You have one set of parents who want the teachers to do more, and another set who will sue if the teachers do more. The teachers are in a no-win situation.
I don't agree they didn't do a crime. I agree they don't need forgiveness because I would never forgive them for their lack of parenting causing the deaths of all those children. Eric and Dylan were still minors and as such their parents are responsible for any and everything they did. Who bought their black coats? Who bought the guns? Who bought the pipe bombs? It doesn't matter if the parents wrapped a pipe bomb up in pretty ribbons for them but they did furnish the money, the time, the lack of supervison, and the lack of responsiblity.
I changed my mind since learning a few facts about the parents...very skeptical to say the least of their 'parenting skills'.
His is the pornography of the known lie mass marketed to social dupes conditioned by the liberal culture.
Great minds think alike.
I was bullied all through elem school. It never happened in adult life. I went on to be a cop..LOL.
It even started happening in my son's christian school this year...so I'm YANKING him...to a different school next year. They haven't got a clue and could care less.
My thoughts exactly.
The parents claim they didn't know, but it's a kind of not-knowing that I call "willful ignorance". They chose not to "know". Things were going gravely wrong and they looked the other way..... (kept feeding money to it, though.)
In society today nothing is expected of children. They are rewarded for all kinds of behavior by parents who really don't want to be bothered with disciplining them. Parents would rather spend their time at work making money to buy them things rather than spend time with them teaching them the correct way to act in society. What is totally frustrating to me with regards to this story is how Mr. and Mrs. Klebold seem so incredibly clueless as to their responsibility. Do I believe they should be prosecuted for these murders, no. But they need to accept responsibility for neglect. Any parent who does not realize that their children are building bombs, collecting guns, etc. in their own homes are nothing short of ignorant and negligent. Apparently the Klebolds expected nothing productive from their son, therefore he was left to do what he wanted.
Sad state of parenting in our nation.
"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." Proverbs 22:15
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