High School male with AS stabs classmate.

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I hear that John O. had a pretty signifficant myspace page I guess it shows just how isolated he was living in his own little world. Hopefully he will get some help and understanding in prison.

One thing, I am christian and so I don't think violence is a legitimate way to handle things. Then, stabbing people is something bumps do, not proper people with morals. Further, sometimes temper rises in all of us, when times are difficult, but we have to control ourselves and think about our actions. For if he had, he would have seen that there are far more bullies waiting for him in jail or in a psychatry, maybe.
He had a short moment of glory and revenge, when he stabbed, but what good did it do to him in the end? The bully was also a person after all, and maybe later in his life he would have repented having bullied the AS pupil.
This only shows that bullying is a serious thing, even though the bullies may not be aware of it

I've been wearing this one out, but you have to see what the boy sees. He sees endless torment no matter what he does, without a chance of getting his own life back in any way, shape, or form. It is likely that his education negates his sense of self, his pride, and makes him unable to trust that he will ever make something of himself. That happened to me. At the same time it is being forced on him as is the presence of many people who will actually physically beat him just because that's the way that they like to play, use the strange human as a punching bag.

Give someone like that a way to get some of his life back without using violence and you will reduce violence in the schools. Do either that, or find a way to get out of his way. Too many routes for him are blocked off. The people who block him will say that "if he's going to be violent to get his way he doesn't deserve to get his way" and this is a bad kind of thinking. People are too used to teenagers being "controlled" and forget that the relief valve was when they evaded control when they were teenagers themselves, and "back then" parents often looked the other way and understood. You would have thought that the 20th and 21st centuries would have been progressive, but religious neo-conservatives spend billions of dollars on an effort to turn back the clock, or to move the times to where they wanted them. What they "control" isn't the violence but every expression of human energy that is nonviolent, so that violence is all that is left.