[emeraldlonewoulf]

What I propose is parents being held responsible for their children. If a parent feels a school is unsafe, put your kid in a different school. If the kid brings a gun to school, or is threatening other students, or uses or distributed drugs, or alcohol, or anything else fucked up, you KICK THAT KID OUT FOR A WHILE, to safeguard the rest. That kid needs to be held responsible for his actions, and his or her parents need to be held responsible for that childs training.

It is not the responsibility of government to educate children. It is the responsiblity of parents. It is not up to schools to raise children, or babysit them, it is a parents' job to teach and care for them.

Please do not get the idea that I think schools are a bad idea. They are a good one. But I think our modern day view of schools' place in a childs' life is somewhat skewed. Parents should be the driving force behind a kids' rearing, taking into consideration that childs specific talents or stumbling blocks, as opposed to a cookic cutter, government designed, brainwashing exercise.


And I never said guns in school is something that needs helping. It does need to be eleiminated, desperately. I never listened to assemblies is school, and D.A.R.E. doesn't work either, at least not after about age six. Again, it comes down to the adults in a childs life being the role models and instructors.

If people get used to it at a young age now, when the cops want to do a search of your home without cause, or confiscate your vehicle without a warrant, or read every single message ever sent on your computer, or read your mail, or listen to your phone calls, people won't be as likely to object. It is true the government can pretty much already do those things, but at least their is some level of public outcry when it happens.


What I was trying to bring attention to was the overall cultural effect of allowing searches of personal property at such a young age. It is just one more step to an ever increasing level of control on peoples lives. Sure, it doesn't seem like such a big deal right now, it is only to protect people. But how much of our personal freedoms are we willing to sacrifice for some false sense of safety? It all seems like a good idea, until things that shouldn't be controlled in a persons' life become illegal.