Two high schoolers dress as Columbine shooters for Halloween, get suspended
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I mean, hey, maybe stop normalizing school shootings and actually pass legislstion against it and kids won't be so concerned about school shooters that they all know who these two are.
Columbine was two decades ago. High schoolers wouldn't have even remotely been alive at that time. Why are they looking up pictures and shit from Columbine? Dressing like some modern shooter is scary and horrifying. Dressing like some from decades ago shows some real crazy intent and worship that's on another level.
I honestly don't think the students should be expelled. They weren't the ones who have normalized school shootings over the past 2 decades to the point where high schoolers now think its a joke.
Don't know the ethics of it, but I wouldn't let them back on school grounds until the parents showed proof of them visiting a psychiatrist.
if they dressed up as dahmer or gein, perhaps it would've been permissable. really poor judgment for them to dress as harris and klebold given the circumstances.
Except.. treating this lightly is protecting that normalization. "this shit is not a joke or normal" is precisely the message that should be sent.
It's reasonable to expect a teenager to understand why this is an absolutely horrific decision.
because they are martyrs and influences to current school shootings. It's one of the most famous school shootings of all time, and many school shooters since have noted the influence of the event on their own decisions. It's not something that is just going to go away over time.
I guarantee if they had done that here in Colorado, they would have been expelled and ran out of town with a quickness.
And to dress up as shooters not even a month after those two black, elderly people were shot in a grocery store in the same state? Nah, fucking expel them.
And to dress up as shooters not even a month after those two black, elderly people were shot in a grocery store in the same state? Nah, fucking expel them.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be suspended. I'm just saying that it's a product of the environment they group up in. You expel them, you got two non-violent idiots learning that the world cares more about making jokes about tragedies than actually working to prevent them.
Yep. Societies hero worship of shooters has ensured their legacy to go way beyond reasonable generational shifts. Add to that, that the underlying problems are still the same, and hardly anything has changed in terms of bullying, gun violence, and the lack of serious treatment of mental problems for teens... well it's hardly surprising to have these two idolised.
High school kids already think it's a joke. They live in danger every day
I'll just say it, I dont see the issue with this. They dressed as something that's routinely accepted as a fact of life here, to the point where just last week a school shooting in NC didnt even result in them canceling classes.
America is apathetic to this bullshit so as not to lose their precious gun hobbies. The real outrage should be that Columbine happens several times every year here and nothing gets done about it.
America is apathetic to this bullshit so as not to lose their precious gun hobbies. The real outrage should be that Columbine happens several times every year here and nothing gets done about it.
What does this even mean? I feel some people just like to use that term for any news story no matter the context.
They did something shitty and inappropriate and were suspended. How is that white privilege?
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I'll need some evidence that a sizable portion of high school kids think school shooting are a joke.
There's a difference between shootings being common and normalized and somebody doing what was done in the OP. Their actions here are not a result of there being an increase in school shootings.
Suspensions are for fighting and smoking weed in the bathroom. Some actions can and should carry heavier consequences. This wasn't just kids dressing up and being dumb. They freakin reenacted a shooting and took pictures of it.
Don't expel. "Sentence" them to spending the summer volunteering with the Sandy Hook Promise group.
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