Thursday, April 26, 2007

Here's the article

..about the student who was arrested. This happened in the Chicago-Land area people.
Good lord.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/358973,CST-NWS-essay26.article

I understand (especially in light of what I said before, regarding when to get involved and when not to..) how important it is for teachers to stay vigilant and to help create and maintain a safe space for their students...but COME ON. Couldn't a counselor have been called? Did the police REALLY need to be involved yet? If that's how we are going to handle emotionally disturbed people (if that is, in fact, what this student was) we may as well go all-in and bring the Thought Police out into the open where they belong.

For fuck's sake.

This is EXACTLY why there is such a stigma around people with psychological issues. Cops get called and suddenly someone who may be mildly depressed is now a dangerous criminal and that stigma gets tacked on to the rest of us by the rubes who make up the majority of this country.

I've had it.

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