"We have met the Enemy, and he is us." - Pogo
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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