over-reaction...

Wednesday, May 26, 1999, at 02:55PM

By Eric Richardson

I'm really sick of all the people blowing little things all out of proportion since the Columbine shooting. Kids are getting suspended and kicked out of school right and left over things that wouldn't have even been noticed before all this... Click for examples...

Surry County, VA - A student is currently suspended for having blue hair. He had the blue hair since December, but they only kicked him out after APril's goings-on.

Fullerton, CA - 12 yr. old honor student suspended for saying, "I'll kill you if you step on my shoes."

Ok... so that's all I can find in like five minutes of looking. I know I saw one yesterday about a kid who got arrested for an essay he wrote four months ago about a kid giving a speech at school with a nuclear bomb attached to his chest. I'll have to find that somewhere...

Even our school is going nuts. Today they started locking all but one outside door during school hours. And this promotes education how?


I'm sick of all this. Paranoia does nothing. The insane will do crazy things no matter what weak measures you put in to stop them. It's just the natural way of things.