Teen Suicide Inside The School, What part does school play in such a death?
Another school death happens, but will school officials ever accept any contributing responsibility for such deaths?
Whenever a school shooting happens, there is lots of news stories about it, as well as discussion about how such a thing could have happened, and how could it have been prevented. Yet never have I heard any teacher, school board member or public official even consider the possibility that the structure of schooling could have contributed to the state of mind of the perpetrator of a school shooting which leaves many innocent students (children) dead.
Will it be any different in this with this most recent teen suicide, outside of Rochester N.Y. in Canandaigua, a city of 11,000 residents? Probably not. There will be news reports, and conferences, but as is usually the case, no mention will be made as to the effect the school environment had on this individual 17 year old who became so lost and desperate.
Instead there will be much discussion about drugs, parents, video games or anything else that allows the maintainers of these institutions called schools avoid any responsibility whatsoever. Most often forced or compulsory schooling inhibits real learning and the desire to learn, and also provides a social environment not that different, in many ways, from prison.
When will the public at large speak up and demand that schools stop forcing young people into these dangerous environments against their will? When will parents stop pretending what school represents and realize that schools, as they exist, are often not healthy places for their children to be, academically nor socially?

May 6th, 2009 at 23:53
“Instead there will be much discussion about drugs, parents, video games or anything else that allows the maintainers of these institutions called schools avoid any responsibility whatsoever.”
Quite so.
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” (Thomas Pynchon)
“Most often forced or compulsory schooling inhibits real learning and the desire to learn, and also provides a social environment not that different, in many ways, from prison.”
I would lose the “Most often” bit..
Malc