He sounds fascinating
Excerpt from an article:
"The truth is," Katz wrote, "many more kids kill themselves then [sic] others, often because of bullying, a subject about which Ashcroft had nothing to say. The question really is whether vicious kids and hostile school environments are turning kids into killers."
He's right. I tried suicide over and over in high school. I stood on top of a building that I'd climbed up to the highest ledge of, and watched the majority of the students below who saw me there, yell "jump jump" A friend who had followed me up there grabbed me before I could.
Bullying is a big deal. It isn't just kids being kids, not when it goes to extremes well beyond the safety zones.
Nightowl >8#
Edit: fixed punctuation
"It's not where a person stands in time of comfort and security, but rather where they stand in times of strife and controversy that determine true friends."
(Quote sent to me by a true friend, author unknown).
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Nightowl
Oct. 14, 2004, 04:00:54 PM EDT