I wish I were an Idol follower. In the persistent gloom of current events, Sanjaya's departure seems to be the one spoonful of sugar in everyone's bitter cuppa joe.
I know I said no more VT for now, but I had to comment on the irony of the new angle: it was payback for schoolyard bullying due to his early difficulty with English; he became an English major with, apparently, an extensive vocabulary. How many native English speakers had to go look up "debauchery" and "hedonism" after the networks were stupid enough to air his videos and final written diatribe?
I don't want to suggest at all that murder is ever justified. But I stand firm on my tolerance platform: It has so much to do with teaching kids how to treat each other in the face of their countless differences. Makes me want to go back down to lower el, where nobody is mad at each other for more than 30 seconds. It's like they say about kindergarten - you really can learn there all you'll need your whole life.
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who had to look up those words? *raises hand* oh wait, you said native english speakers. whew, that doesn't include me.
i'll say this though, i got teased in pre-school about the fact that i didn't speak english. and you know what i did? i learned english. not enough to capitalize all the time and i may have gone to far when i said i didn't want to speak korean again but i adapted. i don't think the bullying was that bad in pre-school (as compared to now) but it was the worse i had encountered up until that point.
bullies start young. they're teaching kids now that name-calling is bullying, and the DARE officer for my school told the kids that they could be arrested for it. i don't think a kid should be taken away for teasing, but i think it would shape up a lot of kids to see an afterschool bully taken away in the paddywagon for physical schoolyard violence.
again we're only talking about a solution to the symptom. chances are there is some problems at home. plus, it's not like they can hold the kid for longer than a day so he'll be back at school within a few days. do we really want to fill the juvie facilities full of bullies? where they'll most likely learn other skills that are less than legal? i say let one of the adults just wail on the kid until he's a bloody mess. the bully understands violence, if he's not the top of the food chain then he's at the bottom. i'm kidding! the arrest is just a threat.
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