Comment Lasers! (Score 1) 399
When they open the card, a miniature home-built laser etches the time/date of your wedding into their eyes so that they will forever see and remember the day that you were to be married.
Comment Terror in Teen Land... (Score 3) 321
Going to high school was a daily chore for me. I dreaded setting foot inside the classroom. I was a typical geek, not goth, clean cut, I just didn't fit in. I had no-one to share my pain with. I had a few friends, but they were unable to comprehend what I was experiencing.
I was verbally abused by both students, and faculty. Publicly, privately, I once had a guidance counselor swear at me loudly. I didn't cause trouble, trouble just seemed to find me in the form of mindless twits with nothing better to do than cause me pain.
I spent four years in the worse hell imaginable, a prison of the mind, where my thoughts were filled with nothing but desire to run from the school and never look back. My grades suffered, my nerves shattered, and my self esteem shot, I managed to grauate 4 years later.
I do not mean to belittle what has occured in Colorado, or the various other schools that have been victim to the rampages of a few. The part that really disappoints me, is how quickly the media set forth on blaming everything material around them, instead of finding out if there was any kind of emotional reason for it.
Teachers do not care, no matter how much they claim to. I had teaches who told me they knew what the other classmates were doing to me, but they never lifted a finger. Yeah, great, talk about the problems besetting our kids, god forbid you actually try to help one of them. I am disgusted at how teachers only now care after something tragic happens. It is your job to make sure we are okay. You are there to teach us, to help us, and to make sure we do not harm ourselves or others. Any of you who claim it is not your job to do this are blind fools. If you were lieing, bleeding on the sidewalk, and a student of yours walked past you and said 'This isn't my job' would you forgive them?
If you don't care, get out of your job, because you do not belong there.
Shame on you, hopefully you will someday wake up.
I was verbally abused by both students, and faculty. Publicly, privately, I once had a guidance counselor swear at me loudly. I didn't cause trouble, trouble just seemed to find me in the form of mindless twits with nothing better to do than cause me pain.
I spent four years in the worse hell imaginable, a prison of the mind, where my thoughts were filled with nothing but desire to run from the school and never look back. My grades suffered, my nerves shattered, and my self esteem shot, I managed to grauate 4 years later.
I do not mean to belittle what has occured in Colorado, or the various other schools that have been victim to the rampages of a few. The part that really disappoints me, is how quickly the media set forth on blaming everything material around them, instead of finding out if there was any kind of emotional reason for it.
Teachers do not care, no matter how much they claim to. I had teaches who told me they knew what the other classmates were doing to me, but they never lifted a finger. Yeah, great, talk about the problems besetting our kids, god forbid you actually try to help one of them. I am disgusted at how teachers only now care after something tragic happens. It is your job to make sure we are okay. You are there to teach us, to help us, and to make sure we do not harm ourselves or others. Any of you who claim it is not your job to do this are blind fools. If you were lieing, bleeding on the sidewalk, and a student of yours walked past you and said 'This isn't my job' would you forgive them?
If you don't care, get out of your job, because you do not belong there.
Shame on you, hopefully you will someday wake up.
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