Saturday, March 3, 2012

A History of Violence: How Our Culture of Fear is Compromising America's Schools

A History of Violence: How Our Culture of Fear is Compromising America's Schools: "In the wake of yet another school shooting, a 45-year veteran of the classroom explores the impact of fear in the schoolhouse.

I went to junior high and high school in Hiram, Ohio, only about twenty miles away from Chardon, whose students experienced this week the latest of what seems to be an endless series of murders in places that are supposed to be our secular sanctuaries. Deadly violence in a schoolhouse seems a most brutal desecration.

What ensues also fits a pattern: an eruption of grief, followed by a brief, evanescent unity in our community, our nation. And then comes the finger-pointing. Pointing a finger--analogous, of course, to pointing a pistol...."

2 comments:

Nate Klein said...

I think you've just done it again... haha you're piling my work on too high!

Underground Politics said...

 I'm glad that what I post is so inspiring! :D