Zarathustra19
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Well, first off, your friend should have been suspended as he was for recruiting at all for a game called "assassins" in school, thats like standard stuff everywhere in the country, but he was probably given an unfair level of suspension because of the mass paranoia the media caused by giving us a full week of non-stop coverage of the VT shootings. I don't think race had anything to do with it in this circumstance, it seems to be more of a, what you called, "knee jerk reaction" because the school saw that if parents heard about it and they hadn't done anything about the student in question, the school would probably have been sued for not doing enough about a "potential threat".
I'll just say our current culture of fear is rather annoying and causes more problems than it prevents by trying to fix things that already happened instead of looking to the next threat.
Sucks for your friend though. But a suspension shouldn't be the end of his educational pursuits. I'm sure he can explain on the application what it was for.
I'll just say our current culture of fear is rather annoying and causes more problems than it prevents by trying to fix things that already happened instead of looking to the next threat.
Sucks for your friend though. But a suspension shouldn't be the end of his educational pursuits. I'm sure he can explain on the application what it was for.