This is a country producing substandard students unable to compete intellectually with their peers, with school budgets a perennial mess. It's also a country that primarily serves compliant, malleable girls in the school systems. Problem boys are fast-tracked to deficit drugs rather than creating educational systems that actually work for them. It's unlikely that the schools could handle filtering for future mass murderers given that they can't even manage their primary mission.
It seems the entire surrounding group was out of touch. Was the father so removed that he spent no time with his son and simply paid off the mother to make a problem go away so he could continue his wealthy much better than yours life? Are we really to believe that he had no knowledge of his son's activities? Who are we to judge these people anyway? We should be judging ourselves that we have allowed such disconnected social systems to become commonplace, and feel that we bear no responsibility to each other or towards the communities we live in. Leigh On 18 Dec 2012 at 12:38 AM, Marcus G. Daniels related > Hi, > > When it comes to gun control and parents, does the government try to > cross-examine parents seeking purchase of weapons to be sure their > remarks about their children are sufficiently detached and analytical? > Do we expect parents to know the inner lives of their introverted > children, and even adult children? The hopes by and expectations of > parents seem counter to an honest assessment of an odd child, especially > in upper-middle class Connecticut. It seems Nancy Lanza did have a > basic misapprehension of her son. If she didn't she would have known > it was inappropriate to have such efficient weapons in the house. > > I think the kind of cultural change that would be needed to identify > cases like Adam Lanza would, in general, be considered too intrusive and > rejected by most Americans. It would involve, I expect, that > apparently introverted kids would receive psychological assessments, and > that those assessments, would need to be actionable without parental > consent. Like most school assessments, they would discourage any > subtle judgement by the fraction of teachers capable of the task. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
