http://winduprubberfinger.com/blog1.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:53:11 +0000 OGRE [Member] c94@http://winduprubberfinger.com/ Rob: I agree with you. The problem has to do with individuals NOT society. As you pointed out there are poor people elsewhere in the world, and somehow this is not a problem in those places. That pretty much says it all. http://winduprubberfinger.com/blog1.php/2009/09/29/16-year-old-honor-student-beaten-to-deat#c94 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:17:23 +0000 Rob [Visitor] c93@http://winduprubberfinger.com/ Wow, people are still blaming video games for violent behavior? That is just ridiculous. People will blame violent kids on everything but the real source: parenting, or better yet, lack thereof. Of course, the parents will blame video games, the media, society, and whatever else they can think of blaming before looking inwards. Did they play video games? Sure they did. I mean, a lot of parents are substituting a PlayStation for actually being home and watching your kids. 30 million dollars? Are you serious? Whatever happened to parenting? <br /> <br /> While some might blame their environment and how poor they are I offer this: there are tens of millions (in the U.S.-billions everywhere else, and I mean so poor that millions die of starvation--at least poor people here get gov't assistance-which millions exploit as well) of people who grew up poor as dirt and didn't turn out as violent psychopaths. People need to start looking inwards and not blame society for their problems. <br /> <br /> And officials need to stop throwing money at the problem and invest that money in the schools. That's a whole other argument too, the schools.Here in Jax, you see all these schools getting failing grades and getting their funding taken away. The situation is so bad that instead of teaching these kids what they need to learn and reasoning and creative thinking skills, they are actually being taught the exams. Once again, the problem is not with the schools, it's with the parents. For every 100 kids that flunk those tests, how many of them actually have parents that sit down with them and help them do homework? How many parents beat their asses for bringing home sh***y grades? How many parents just call the teachers to see how their kids are doing and how they can improve? How many of them go to their PTA meetings? How many of them have ANY other kind of communication with the school instead of just signing suspension notices and report cards (if they even do that)? Once again, the problem goes back to the parents.
While some might blame their environment and how poor they are I offer this: there are tens of millions (in the U.S.-billions everywhere else, and I mean so poor that millions die of starvation--at least poor people here get gov't assistance-which millions exploit as well) of people who grew up poor as dirt and didn't turn out as violent psychopaths. People need to start looking inwards and not blame society for their problems.

And officials need to stop throwing money at the problem and invest that money in the schools. That's a whole other argument too, the schools.Here in Jax, you see all these schools getting failing grades and getting their funding taken away. The situation is so bad that instead of teaching these kids what they need to learn and reasoning and creative thinking skills, they are actually being taught the exams. Once again, the problem is not with the schools, it's with the parents. For every 100 kids that flunk those tests, how many of them actually have parents that sit down with them and help them do homework? How many parents beat their asses for bringing home sh***y grades? How many parents just call the teachers to see how their kids are doing and how they can improve? How many of them go to their PTA meetings? How many of them have ANY other kind of communication with the school instead of just signing suspension notices and report cards (if they even do that)? Once again, the problem goes back to the parents.]]> http://winduprubberfinger.com/blog1.php/2009/09/29/16-year-old-honor-student-beaten-to-deat#c93