Re:*I* could've been jailed for a story I wrote in (Score 1)

I have to admit that I never went to public school here in NYC. No, I did 13 years of Catholic school instead. From my experience, it was almost as bad. High school for me was 4 years of an all girl Cath. school where if you weren't a jock or a super-scientist, you were less than crap. I was (still am, actually) a gamer and a comp geek. Computers were only a tool, and being able to manuever around one meant you were something of a mechanic. Completely unacceptable. Add on my refusal to be the jocks target (not only did I fight back, I fought back dirty. may as well take out as many as you can while you're bleeding...) and my smart mouth, well most of you probably know. I made the mistake in my senior year of writing a short story about black magic. Granted, it was a twisted topic and a really twisted story, but it was good enough that the teacher gave me the highest grade in the class and raved about it for an entire afternoon. Well, that was slightly uncomfortable, but it got worse when one of the literate jocks ratted me out to the principal. From there, it was about three months of counseling (that's all that was left in the school year) and about a year of lectures from my parents. Yeah, in that time I thought about going on a rampage, but I didn't. Most sane people don't. I don't care who it is, push them far enough and they'll start thhinking about the extreme. We're all human, and we all have a breaking point. The sooner the rest of the world realizes that geeks are poeple too, the better off we (and they) will be.