Wise on School Shootings and White Denial

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 10 19:23:22 PST 2001


More anecdotal evidence. Lastw eek, my 11 year old daughter, visiting from Evanston, IL, was not permitted to spend the day with her friend at school in Fairfax Co., VA; policy, they said. It may have been liability. But when I was growing up, it wouldn't have been a problem. --jks


>
>Here I agree with Carrol. Also, there's the guilt placed upon working moms.
>I suspect schools are more "policed" or repressive now than they were a
>generation ago. This is just a guess. Anecdotal evidence alert: I remember
>back in the late '80s when my public high school campus was "closed" so
>that
>students could no longer roam off campus during lunch or breaks. Students
>protested by wearing black and white striped t-shirts with their ID numbers
>written on them like prisoner tags.
>
>Peter
>

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