Student Arrested, For disturbing essay Options

[The Fanatic]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/27/student.e...t.ap/index.html

[Mommy]

Kids need to learn that their words and actions have consequences and that there are boundaries. I agree with the punishment.

[Rocky]

Kids need to learn that their words and actions have consequences and that there are boundaries. I agree with the punishment.

Students were told to "write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing," according to a copy of the assignment.

[Mommy]

I know. I can read. I went to a private Baptist school that didnt tolerate stupid shit like that. I like feeling safe at school, and I felt safe. Kids and teachers just dont feel safe anymore.

[Rocky]

I know. I can read. I went to a private Baptist school that didnt tolerate stupid shit like that. I like feeling safe at school, and I felt safe. Kids and teachers just dont feel safe anymore.

Thats not the point at all. The point is, the students were explicitly told to write what is on their minds without any censorship. You can read - but can you understand and interpret ?


I definitely think that essays for school should not be about going on a killing spree. However, when you tell students, to write, anything that comes to their minds without censorship - what do you expect ! Sure you could do this a million times and most people won't write about subject matter that is violent and scary, but any teacher with half an overflowed toilet's worth of shit fragments for brains should know the possibilities.


What if in an offshoot chance a child uses such an assignment as a true cry for help ? Didn't you have compassion in a sense for Cho because he had problems and it seemed that nobody was helping him ?

At the most they should have talked to the student and say that they felt concerned with his paper and they want to make sure things are going ok for him.


Or explicitly mention guidelines in assignments.


I had a teacher request an essay one day in form of a petition for an inclass assignment. For us to write in regards to a cause of any kind. I wrote for the eradication of all religions on this planet. She was pissed at me and gave me a C-, if even that...I don't recall specifically. I didn't get in trouble, but it was sure stupid to see that my instructor was being biased on subject matter rather than the actual quality of my paper [and yes I was an A student].


If you want to feel safe, then stop going to school by around 8th grade. By then we were using the sharp compass in math classes. I was also big enough that I know I could effectively stab that into the bodies of multiple people before any security could get there. In Chemistry we had tons of flammable and explosive chemicals on hand. Safety is an illusion we all try our hardest to live in and feel.

[Mommy]

You can read - but can you understand and interpret ?

Yes, I understand and I just interpret it differently than you do.

If you tell a young child that they can play any game that they want to play...that means any game within reason. No strip poker and shit like that. In this case, the teacher wanted the students to be creative. Write anything their imagination brings to mind.... there are unsaid limits though. The student knew this. He was just trying to test boundaries. Thats cool, though, if you want to throw low blows to get your point across. I expect that from idiots like Brandon, but not from you.

[Divergent Realit...]

Yes, I understand and I just interpret it differently than you do.

If you tell a young child that they can play any game that they want to play...that means any game within reason. No strip poker and shit like that. In this case, the teacher wanted the students to be creative. Write anything their imagination brings to mind.... there are unsaid limits though. The student knew this. He was just trying to test boundaries. Thats cool, though, if you want to throw low blows to get your point across. I expect that from idiots like Brandon, but not from you.

theres a bold word in that statement that makes all the difference. if the teacher says to write whatever comes to mind, the students are expected to do so. the teacher did not say 'write whatever you want, withing reason.' anything that is an unsaid limit is unknown unless shared. just like teaching a child what is 'bad' they have no clue what you consider 'bad' until you program your version of 'bad' into them.