It truly is completely amazing how paranoid much of the world has become. Not just due to terrorism or anything of that sort... Paranoid about everything.
And schools are where you see it all come to a head.
The worst part about it, is that it often isn't the kids' faults. It's the parents. Note that I am not using an absolute here, I am not trying to arbitrarily pass off blame on parents.
The sane parents are fine. It's the insane ones, the 5% or so, that cause the problems, the complete control freaks, the ones who, for lack of a better word, spazz out constantly over even the slightest hint of a controversial subject.
These sort of parents, get used to having iron-fisted control over their children at home. Control over what they watch, who they see, what they read, what they do. And then their child goes off to school, and, much to their dismay, guess what?
They don't have direct control over their kids anymore.
Now, a sane person would accept this. They're at school, for heaven's sake, surrounded by other adults. Surely SOMEONE in the sea of faculty and staff there must know how to deal with children. They ARE trained for that, after all.
And therein lies the problem. You see, to the insane parents, there are two problems with a school environment. First is that they don't place even the slightest degree of trust in their kids. Trust my child to show restraint, they say? Are you fucking nuts? My child can't control anything he or she does. They are completely unworthy of any trust whatsoever!
That's where problem #1 begins. If you run your child's life, if you control every single aspect of everything they do, you stifle them. So is it any surprise that they might go a little overboard when they get outside the parents' sphere of influence?
And this begins problem #2. The insane parents don't trust the teachers. These chronically underpaid and overworked people, almost none of whom would have a job teaching if they didn't WANT to be there, if they didn't WANT and LOVE to teach. But these parents don't trust the teachers to do their jobs. Not for any logical reason, either... simply because they're not in control.
Lack of control equals fear. And what do these parents do out of fear? They prosecute these teachers for not exercising the "proper" control over their children. They prosecute them for almost anything.
5% of the parents cause 95% of the problems.
And thus begins the final problem. The teachers, themselves, become paranoid. Out of fear of losing a job that already barely makes ends meet, the teachers start to prosecute the kids for anything that could even SLIGHTLY be construed as provacative or contraversial.
Freedom of Speech in school? Hardly. The Bill of Rights is long, long gone on school grounds.
We live in an age where you can be arrested for writing an essay which contains the word 'murder'. You could be discussing Tess of the D'Urbervilles for all they care. You mentioned murder, you must be a psychotic raving lunatic!
And thus ends my rant.
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OH come on how lame is that ? those teacher must be still scared from those shooting that happen last few years 
why dont they frisk the kid who has guns and knives on them all the time? 
that makes me scared that they are worring about me insted of the kid who brings knives to school every day.... switch-blades the hole shabam, i see the stuff all the time.. :idea: