Thursday, April 19, 2007

Bullying Caused Cho to Kill?

It seems like it was one of the many things that turned this kid into a psychopath according to this article.

Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and
when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled.
Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho
started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in
his mouth," Davids said.


"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing
and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.


This was similar to what happened with the Columbine Killers as well. I think schools need to have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to bullying in any grade. If they treated Bullying with the same seriousness as bringing a gun to school, or sexual harassment then maybe we can prevent the next mass killing. I think educators should really be on the lookout for this stuff and make more of an effort to get these kids into some kind on counselling.

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