School shootings and now school stabbings??

[henners88]

Take an adolescent, with lots of strange hormones running around, add a negative sense of self worth and failure to fit into their peer group and you've got the basis for those kids. Now add in the national media playing it all up as the story of the year and you have just provided the incentive for them to go out in a blaze of glory "showing the world who I am and they shouldn't have messed with me and I'll make them be sorry" and, bingo, you've got your teenage mass murderer.

I do think the schools system in the States is based far too much on competition, from my limited knowledge of course. There seems to be more peer pressure to fit into a social group than say the UK for instance. Films always seem to highlight the groups like jocks, nerds, goths etc etc and not sure how true that is but I've heard the opinion expressed in the past as a hint as to why kids feel let down when they don't feel they've fitted in. There must be something that trigger she extreme form of retaliation.

The problem we have here at the mo is not kids killing other kids with guns or knives but cyber bullying. Far too many kids are committing suicide after a few nasty Facebook posts and it's something our society and school desperately need to tackle!