19th April 2007, 12:17 PM
Remember that after Colombine, many "loner" type students, basically people that were too afraid of further bullying to come out of their shell, were suddenly targetted as possible "lose cannons". Many schools had rumors flying around that led to parents threatening all sorts of things unless said students were removed immediatly. It didn't matter that there was no reason to suspect these people based purely on them already being disliked or such tenuous connections, they "couldn't take that chance". Witch hunt, pure and simple.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)