Great. We’ll loose the homicidal on the retards and mentally ill.
The violent have NO place in a mainstream school. The others? It did me no harm to go to school with mentally retarded kids. My son is high-functioning autistic, which was one aspect of Cho’s illness, but he is not violent and neither are most autistic people. He graduated HS and is attending community college this fall.
Should we have him put in a loony bin, or just lock him in the basement?
Mrs VS
He was in the loony bin for one night, should’ve been there a lot longer.
You are of course intentionally misinterpreting my argument. Par for course for those parents who have a special needs child. After all, god forbid they and their child’s self esteem be shattered with the idea that they’re different and perhaps they shouldn’t be included in regular classes due to the distractions they present.
OF COURSE nonviolent special needs kids should be protected from those who may have violent tendencies. Teach them all separaretly and by their need. They way it should be and the way it was.
I think any kid who is on record as having homicidal fantasies as part of their mental disorder ought not be admitted onto campus.
Maybe provide some other means for him - but not mainstream him into the general population.
I learned tonight watching nightline that it was known during his highschool years that Columbine set something off in him. He was obsessed with it, wrote about, and said he wanted to do the same.
VTech should have been allowed to have this info when he applied.