Kids being kids?

Charger78
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:03:46 +0000

I think that a lot is being made of how the school (which could be any, across the spectrum) “reacts” or “responds” to the crisis that has already happened. Of course, that does count for something, and interested current parents or prospective parents and students would do well to take note of what was done afterward, primarily by locating sources like the one in the op.

But can schools build a culture and engineer an environment to minimize this sort of activity from happening in the first place? I think that they ought to try, as one of their primary goals. Such effort would then be manifestly evident to the interested outsider. You would first see it “at the top”, in how the leadership speaks or writes, and charges the rest of the administration of the school. And the students who are there should be able to confirm, in one way or another, that they are living with the results of such an institutional emphasis. Learning to live well with one another is explicitly the object of Pre-K and elementary schooling, and it should be so in high school as well.