I keep picking at the scab and yet I expect it to get better. I keep smiling, because I heard that it's contagious and if I can do it, maybe others can too. My eyelids are growing heavy, but I have committed to doing this "writing thing."
Randy is great. I'm at a loss for more words right now. I'm looking toward the future.
Verizon is wonderful a whole week into it. Gee, isn't everything? Check back in a few months; a year.
j.r.me
Sunday, March 11, 2001
Tuesday, March 06, 2001
gunny boom boom
((I wrote this in an e-mail some time ago))
Hi Kevin & Bean...
I caught some of the calls this morning that you took regarding the Santana High School incident and the point one of you was making about how having more gun control. I actually agree that as a country we should have more strict gun control laws, HOWEVER, guns have been around since this country began. This "kids-shooting-kids" phenomenon is only becoming more prevelant in the past several years which leads me to conclude that the guns are not the REAL issue here.
If we were to round up every last gun on the street today, legal or illegal, we would still have the problem of children who feel neglected by their parents, bullied by classmates, attacked by the world (so to speak) and who would still be dealing with their internal, violent thoughts. If the guns are gone, these underlying causes for lashing out still exist and children will only find other more creative ways to express themselves and garner attention.
How about some type of mandatory parental involvement with each student on a monthly basis? Teachers sometimes know kids better than parents do, but no one individual knows everything. In America's pursuit to stay on top of the Capitalistic Global Economy, we're working more to support the families that we no longer know, in essence creating the terrible hollowness in these kids.
love ALL-ways,
j.r.me
Hi Kevin & Bean...
I caught some of the calls this morning that you took regarding the Santana High School incident and the point one of you was making about how having more gun control. I actually agree that as a country we should have more strict gun control laws, HOWEVER, guns have been around since this country began. This "kids-shooting-kids" phenomenon is only becoming more prevelant in the past several years which leads me to conclude that the guns are not the REAL issue here.
If we were to round up every last gun on the street today, legal or illegal, we would still have the problem of children who feel neglected by their parents, bullied by classmates, attacked by the world (so to speak) and who would still be dealing with their internal, violent thoughts. If the guns are gone, these underlying causes for lashing out still exist and children will only find other more creative ways to express themselves and garner attention.
How about some type of mandatory parental involvement with each student on a monthly basis? Teachers sometimes know kids better than parents do, but no one individual knows everything. In America's pursuit to stay on top of the Capitalistic Global Economy, we're working more to support the families that we no longer know, in essence creating the terrible hollowness in these kids.
love ALL-ways,
j.r.me
