RE: columbine h.s.

[Robert Probasco <rcp@uidaho.edu>]

> "It is our own children who have made the schools unsafe?"
> This comment makes me wonder about the role of adults in childrens' lives.

While these wrenching tragedies usually reach fruition in HS or JHS, the
seeds are sown (and nurtured) during the early elementary years.  

Even though the parents have control over the home environment, it is the
administrators and teachers (and older students) who set the standards in
the school.  Perhaps the teachers have felt powerless to impose the
discipline and modeling needed during elementary school (since everything 
must now be politically correct).
		
I was appalled at the level of behavior tolerated in the Moscow elementary
and JH schools about five to ten years ago.  Yet the people in charge
considered it acceptable.  I gather the JHS has improved recently, with
the new administrator.

How are the elementary schools doing?  

	Bob Probasco		rcp@uidaho.edu