Happy Anniversary

5 years ago today, two boys went into a Colorado school and never came out. They unwittingly created a divide on how schools should react to their students, as well as setting a new standard for revenge (which hasn't really been met yet).

So, where are we now? National Review did an article praising the limitations of release which schools have reactively applied to their students. This, to me, is a hilarious concept.

Lets think about this, a student who has been socially stigmatized and oppressed by his peers without sufficient authoritative retribution is punished for creating his own vengence on paper rather than in life. With this unjust punishment, the student develops a general distrust and hatred towards authority, which will probably last for the majority of his life. But, this "helps" the student? Or are we just trying to protect the attackers (who incidentally are generally either really rich or really poor). If you think the people who misguidedly believe that such a lockdown on teenage angst release are trying to protect the really poor bullies, think again.

What we need is some sort of examination about how many students had written aggressive violent over-the-top revenge stories on their peers and went postal compared to how many actually were helped by such a release. Of course, the trend for specific names was never acquired by this writer, I will say that I used be an extremely violent writer. And, in today's society, I would have been punished for it. But, i never shot anybody in real life, though they deserved it.

And, if a student complains to authorities they should react, because most of the picked on will endure quite diligently without becoming a "rat." The authorities (in this case, a teacher or principal) also need to watch their students and make sure that the bullies are punished as equally as the picked on.

And, fuck the idea that you get punished for vicarious revenge.