Ignorance isn’t always bliss

Ohio school shooter gave many warnings:

When someone says I have a gun and I’m going to shoot up the school why in the blue hell do people continue to ignore it?

“When he got suspended he said, ‘I got something for y’all,’ ” she said. “I thought he was just playing, because he, like, said that all the time. But I see that he was for real.”

YA THINK?

And it wasn’t just students the faculty of SuccessTech ignored it too.

On CBS’ “Early Show” Thursday morning, student Rasheem Smith said the school’s principal, Johneita Durant, had not found time to discuss students’ concerns about Coon, The Associated Press reported.

“I told my friends in the class that he had a gun and stuff,” Smith said. “He was talking about doing it last week. I don’t know why they didn’t say nothing.

“We talked to the principal. She would try to get us all in the office, but it would always be too busy for it to happen.”

A message left at Durant’s office was not immediately returned, the AP reported, and a phone call to her home was not answered.

SuccessTech doesn’t sound very successful now, does it?

Let’s cue up the apologists while we’re at it.

“You get pushed and pushed and pushed, and sometimes you go over the edge,” a neighbor told CNN affiliate WOIO.

“I ain’t justifying nothing,” said another neighbor. “I ain’t saying he did the right thing, but I am saying he got pushed for a long time and asked them people to help, help, help, help, but nobody helped.”

Now, who exactly did Asa Coon ask for help? Was it the mother he slapped around or the judge whose courtroom he stormed out of? And who exactly pushed him? To do what exactly?

Just another example of everyone trying to place the blame everywhere except where it should be. On Asa Coon.

Comments

6 responses to “Ignorance isn’t always bliss”

  1. BelchSpeak Avatar

    “We talked to the principal. She would try to get us all in the office, but it would always be too busy for it to happen.”

    A message left at Durant’s office was not immediately returned, the AP reported, and a phone call to her home was not answered.

    Run, rabbit. Run.

    She had to have a pow-wow and somehow “couldn’t fit” everyone who was worried about Coon into her office?

    I am revising my prediction. She will be fired by *Tuesday.*

  2. Alyric Avatar
    Alyric

    Maybe this was also the school for “special” educators.

  3. tja68 Avatar
    tja68

    whos gonna file the first lawsuit

  4. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    This is a sad story. Since 1996, so many gun shooting incidents occurred in schools! Our kids need to get serious education on this issue.

    Here is a good story suitable for kids: http://www.fairyland.tv/jay-joy/jay-joy-14-joy-learns-karate.html.

  5. teacher Avatar
    teacher

    The first lawsuit? And who do we sue?

    Most parents are unaware of the trend in education to “the least restrictive environment” for students in special education. This classification includes students with pshychological problems as well. The new word for all this is ‘inclulsion’. Regular education classrooms are being peppered with special education students. These range from students with mild to profound disabilitioes – and students with documented pshycologial problems. The theory is that these students will perform better in regular education classroom. Theory aside, the effect is devastating to education. Most classroom teachers are simply not trained for this population nor have the unlimited time to adjust the curriculum to this population. Even special education teachers in the classroom are clueless.

    And this year our school has a student who has suddenly ‘graduated’ from a behavior education self-contained (not in regular ed. classes) class to regular eduction classes. He has already been kicked off the bus for disruptive behavior, brandished a knife at another student, and now our literature teacher is cautious about reading any Edgar Allan Poe stories because this kid may get some ideas.

    So who do we blame? The regular education teachers who insist this is a bad idea, but must follow school policy? Special education teachers who say inclusion is better? Administrators who enforce the school board policy? Parents who just want their child to be normal? The child himself?

    We must seriously re-evaluate our educational goals. Do we educate the few special students to the detriment of the majority of students? Do we place our schools at risk just to be politically correct?

  6. BelchSpeak Avatar

    You sue the teacher, the principal, the school board and the city.

    What you describe is putting psychos among the regular students in school in the name of inclusiveness, and its absolutely going to FAIL over and over again. the only way to affect change is to either grow a huge movement to homeschool or to sue the bejeezus out of the school systems.

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