Ann Beeson, an ACLU staff attorney, said some schools are forcing children to seek psychological counseling without parental support or a recommendation from a medical professional. In such cases, counseling can be perceived as punishment rather than an attempt to aid a child. Some of the students who will become the most successful, the most creative, the most brilliant are a little alienated in their teenage years. Being different is not the same thing as being dangerous. A task force had been working on a larger diversity curriculum since December, but the Littleton shooting prompted school officials to move forward with the guidelines.
Kids are cruel.
If we don't establish boundaries now and there are fewer boundaries being established at home, we don't have a ghost of a chance. Kane hopes the new zero-tolerance guidelines in Corpus Christi will help avoid such cruelty between student cliques. Educators say students also benefit from the personal attention afforded by smaller high schools. School officials are discussing techniques for breaking into smaller units. Houston noted that he has seen some resistance to building smaller high schools from community members worried that such a move would diminish athletic opportunities for students.