I’ve seen stories that the killer had been diagnosed as autistic at age eight. Assuming that’s true, while he clearly was functioning at a fairly high level, when you hear the stories of his academic behavior at college, one has to wonder–how did he get into VPI? What kind of high-school record did he have?
Was there some affirmative action going on here? (Kind of strange, if so, because usually Asians are disadvantaged by it.)
How did this guy acquire such a hatred of “rich people”?
Surely it couldn’t have had anything to do with the fact that he was under the tutelage of the English Department?
Huh? Why would someone go to a polytechnic university to get a degree in English?
Huh? Why would someone go to a polytechnic university to get a degree in English?
Huh? Why would someone go to a polytechnic university to get a degree in English?
This looks like a good book for kids
I think I’ll get it for my niece and nephew–I’d like them to understand what their grandparents went through. And I’m afraid they’ll be too busy learning rain-forest algebra to pick up any actual history in public school.
Somehow, I think that (too frequent) commenter Brian Swiderski would do quite well on the new SAT essay section.
[Via Jeff Goldstein]
Somehow, I think that (too frequent) commenter Brian Swiderski would do quite well on the new SAT essay section.
[Via Jeff Goldstein]
Somehow, I think that (too frequent) commenter Brian Swiderski would do quite well on the new SAT essay section.
[Via Jeff Goldstein]
Is that what the public school system is?
Today, schools promote anti-bullying strategies which encourage the goons to talk to their victims. They attach no blame to the perpetrators. Predictably, they are failing, according to the British children’s charity Kidscape.
Using this strategy the school forces the victim to provide a written statement describing how distressed he feels about the way he’s been treated. He is then expected to read the statement to the good little boys who have derived pleasure from inflicting pain. This approach gives the thugs all the information they need to torture their victims even more.
One exasperated mother described the dismal results:
“They found out about my son’s weaknesses, his feelings and his lack of confidence and had a field day bullying him and telling others. The bullying increased because the bullies knew he would not tell again after this devastating result.”
In another instance a school principal refused to exclude a boy who had set fire to a young girl’s hair. He was reluctant, he said, to single out a youngster who had “problems.” Describing this junior arsonist as a youngster with problems is like saying that Jeffrey Dahmer had an eating disorder.
Maybe the girl with the flaming hair can resolve her feelings about being set on fire. Would anyone like to suggest that she talk to the psychological social worker?
Sure sounds like it to me.