19th April 2007, 3:23 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote: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.
One of my old school pals experienced that , A jack ass lied to the police in scheme and said he and couple of other friends had a plan to shoot up the school. The biggest humiliation was when his name was put out on the local radio ,Only for hours later they had to retract the hole story and then vindicate him as a innocent student who was falsely accused by this dick weed who phoned the police making up bullshit ,Motivated over some jealous animosity due to a earlier confrontation between the accuser and my friends group.
Whats interesting was that the kid who pulled the scheme fit the profile of a school shooter more then those he accused did as he was unpopular was much disliked and hated by most of the kids in the school, He was described as obnoxious and confrontational abusive anti social,While the accused were completely the opposite.