So, if compassion, like wisdom comes with age and maturity, behaviors comparable to compassion need to be instilled. If the youth only understand strength and fear, perhaps that needs to be replaced in their lives. I feared my teachers, for I KNEW that they would, could and repeatedly did beat kids who were out of line. The kids have no reason to fear any adult, for if an adult attempts even the most minor of disciplinary actions, he may be fired, or imprisioned. Now, the same liberals who have removed discipline from the classrooms wonder why compassion has left too.
Ask yourself, has the liberal-led action to remove personal responsibility and discipline from our schools made them a better place? Do the schools turn out a better product today than they did 20 (50, 75 or 100)years ago?
No offense, but I think that's cr*p. I went to a boarding school, started in eight grade. Even as a 13 yr old I and others had some sense of compassion towards others. Sometimes the in clique would pick on the outies- but there was also a sense that a) man, we were pretty mean b) we should try to be nice to the kid and make him feel better. We sure as hell never beat anybody up, let alone smashed a bat over their heads.
These kids, like all kids, have to capacity to feel compassion- they have not been taught to use it.
This kid that got the crap kicked out of him...another gang member? The article makes it sound like he was just a wanna-be, hung around with the bad-asses. Maybe instead of blaming the school, the parents should be looking at their methods of child training. Perhaps they should have kept the kid from hanging out with such trash....it DOES have a tendency to leave its smell on another. If there's a kid hanging out, 'nothing more', with a gang who's known to be caught up in the unseemly things in life/shootings, etc, COMMON SENSE will tell you that a bullet, or whatever, does NOT stop to ask if it's hitting a gang-member OR a 'just hanging out'er.