Posted on 04/19/2007 2:41:41 PM PDT by alcenoo
Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was pushed around and laughed at as a schoolboy in suburban Washington because of his shyness and the strange, mumbly way he talked, former classmates say.
Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.
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YES! What you said.....and what others have said - we treat drunks like they are dangers to society - let’s do the same with “mental cases” who stalk women, set fires in their dorm rooms, and are obviously unstable.
Huh. Try being the last baby in a large family.
Happydogx2
Ain’t even gonna ask why you know about those....;]
Try being a redhead in an Italian neighborhood, in New York.
I actually was terrorized by a group of girls when I was in middle school way back when. I was afraid (hey, I was a girl, I didn’t fight, and these girls came from mean backgrounds and were like a pack!) Anyway, one day I had enough, I agreed to meet and fight it out, and while I got the soup beaten out of me, that was the end. I guess they figured it wasn’t that much fun if the target would fight back.
susie
Public school, breeding jerks and psychos!
Solving a personal bullying problem is part of the maturation process. Unfortunately, the NEA recommends taking a passive, run-away-from-it rather than solve-it approach. This insures that no resolution ever occurs.
It appears that when he turned the tables and became the bully this week, students may have taken the same NEA recommended approach to dealing with him: do nothing.
I was picked on in school. In fact, Flanders Elementary School, Lillie B. Haynes Junior High, and East Lyme High School were a living hell. There were days when I wanted nothing more than to never, ever go back there.
Hey, so that’s what I did when I graduated. I got as far away as I could. I didn’t go out and start killing people. I learned from my tormentors that I would spend the rest of my life treating others with compassion and decency, and if I saw a child getting crapped on by others, I would intervene.
This guy at Virginia Tech deserves one of the most toasty sections in hell. Being “picked on” is never an excuse for abusive cruelty.
LOL, really?
From the movie, “A Fish Called Wanda” 1988:
Wanda: I’m sorry about my brother, Ken. I know he’s insensitive. He’s had a hard life. Dad used to beat him up.
Ken: Good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095159/quotes
I’ve always wondered why no one mentions the children that survived the Holocaust. Based on Liberal thinking, why didn’t the child survivors of the Holocaust become mass murderers based on their horrendous childhood? Nothing could be worse than what those children saw and endured. Liberal philosophy and thinking is BS and destroying our country.
NOTHING excuses this Killer.....NOTHING.
He had a CLEAN slate when he entered college and what did he do.....he signed into his clas with a “?”!!!! ALERT!! ALERT!!!! NUTCASE!!!
Try being a redheaded guy anywhere, there carrottop. I think redheads of the fairer sex may find life a bit easier.
Welcome to FR. It's not at all obvious to me. Thousands if not millions of kids are teased at school, or get less attention then they deserve and never murder anyone.
Remember the single anti-George Allen person who claimed that he had heard him use racial epithets in college. It was completely unsubstantiated, in fact refuted by everyone else who knew him. No matter, the left ran with it as confirmation that Macaca showed a pattern and now Harry Reid is in charge of the Senate.
“I think redheads of the fairer sex may find life a bit easier”.
I’m of the so called ‘fairer sex’, was not ‘easier’...lol
Dodgeball did it to him.
John
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