High schools and colleges not dealing with peer pressure, family problems, financial issues and telling student that there future are at stake without giving them the skills to cope.
I feel that students need more student services in high school and colleges. High school students need services like personal counseling, financial aid, etc. And colleges need more personal counseling and financial help. Both institutions need more intervention in stress management and life skills development.
There have always been mean and crazy people. The solution would be to deal with them (eliminate them) early on, when they were first identified as antisocial misfits. Most of this type of thing could be prevented.
#1 by sisterchick1274 on August 22nd, 2009
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No, I think the moral decline of our country is causing it.
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#2 by Andrew M on August 22nd, 2009
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A simple answer to your question: no.
I dont see the correlation between these pressures and the desire to massacre.
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#3 by DickyNowItAll on August 22nd, 2009
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What are you serious !
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#4 by a-mazed on August 22nd, 2009
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You’ve got some good ideas here – but – the bottom line?
Moral fibre of humans is steadily declining . . .
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#5 by cute mum on August 22nd, 2009
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No. I think these things happen when something in ones brain goes haywire.
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#6 by rattyboo on August 22nd, 2009
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What pressures are there today that have not ALWAYS been there? Why would you think today it is harder than before? If anything, it is ridiculously easier with the invention of the computer, and the expansion of the internet.
There are not that many shootings, it’s just that the ones you see are terrible.
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#7 by clearroses22 on August 22nd, 2009
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You know that they do have ALL of that available for students at high school and in college, but how are they going to force someone to go to a school counselor? Think about Columbine, they said that THEIR parents didn’t even know, so how do you think that having more school counselors is going to help? Do you really think if there had been more of them or more money, that he would have walked in and told him he was going to do this? I don’t think so, it’s not the school’s fault that it happened. No matter how many school counselors we have it wouldn’t have stopped this.
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#8 by Dogzilla on August 22nd, 2009
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There have always been mean and crazy people. The solution would be to deal with them (eliminate them) early on, when they were first identified as antisocial misfits. Most of this type of thing could be prevented.
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#9 by wildmlwilson on August 22nd, 2009
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No. The pressure in colleges is not anywhere near historic levels endured by previous generations or by immigrants. The problem is that some people feel that the actions they commit won’t have consequences to them personally. Many of these shooters commit suicide because they have fallen for the belief that once they are dead, it is all over. However, One who died and then returned, has shown all mankind that there is a judgement after this.
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#10 by Saint Lucipher on August 22nd, 2009
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What causes shootings at school goes back to bad parenting of the student. School shootings were pretty much non existant years ago and the only thing that changed was single parent families and bad parenting
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#11 by JT on August 22nd, 2009
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That is ridiculous! They are millions of kids all over the world who have pressure on them to do well while going through bad times, they don’t line up their fellow students and shoot them one by one!
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I went to 4 different secondary schools with most pupils from rough backgrounds…
#12 by Donald J on August 22nd, 2009
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Wrong.
Too many are given counseling and medication and excuses for their dysfunction. More of them need their asses beat at an early age to break them from being spoiled and psycho little whack-jobs.
Liberal political correctness is to blame.
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#13 by GeeGee on August 22nd, 2009
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No, I don’t think pressure is the reason. as the pressure today is no greater than in past generations. The pressures are different, but no greater. Perhaps there is always a percentage of the population that will break down and react with violence, and since the population in general keeps growing, this % of violent person also obviously translates into more people, and that accounts for the increased number of incidents. Social programs are great but healing begins at home and people need to nuture their own.
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#14 by Karma on August 22nd, 2009
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No. Are you kidding? If anything, kids have less pressure than they did 75 years ago. With so many technological advances they have it much, much easier. Back then, not only did kids have to attend school, but they had to tend farms, assist in helping raise their brothers and sisters, and perhaps help bring in some much needed money to the family. You know what? Things were drastically more stable back then. They didn’t have time to fall into states of depression, or pre-meditate a massacre, there was work to be done.
These days, kids are practically having easy lives handed to them on silver platters. Perhaps that’s the problem. The decline of society and the value of hard work. You know what they used to say, "Idle hands are the devil’s tools." It just may be true.
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#15 by bebop_groove_bonanza on August 22nd, 2009
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I don’t think its the pressure as much as it is the isolation. People are so separated from each other, even when they are in the same room. The proliferation of cellphones, internet combined with the hectic schedules causes people to be so wrapped up with themselves that they neglect the others around them. Then those younger people feel insignifigant and lash out in the worst way.
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#16 by burning brightly on August 22nd, 2009
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No its a individual desire to inflict upon others a punishment, and it is triggered by some thing that is mostly never obvious until after the act no amount of extra spending or more staff can predict that.~~
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#17 by hotel22000 on August 22nd, 2009
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I COMPLETELY DISSAGREE. THIS RABBIT HOLE GOES MUCH DEEPER. ALTHOUGH ALL YOUR IDEAS ARE WELL INTENDED AND WOULD’NT HURT, THESE ARE VOLUNTARY SERVICES OFFERED TO PEOPLE WHO POTENTIALLY ALREADY SUFFER MENTAL DISTRESS AND WOULD PROBABLY NEVER TAKE ADVANTAGES THE EFFORTS YOU MENTIONED.
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#18 by kathy_is_a_nurse on August 22nd, 2009
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I think it is more a question that kids are not taught how to deal with pressure from an early age. They are so protected now that they are never allowed to experience real challenges and "failure". They are not allowed to compete because it could damage their little psyches. So when they finally get into a competitive environment they don’t have the coping skills to deal with it.
Given that reality, services such as you describe are probably necessary. But it is rather like closing the barn door after the horse is out. Instead of fixing the problems that contribute to this condition, we are putting a bandaid on the end result.
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