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abynormal
Posts: 427 Location: Louisiana |
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The argument that "the school should know it's just fiction" is really weak. Most adults in governing bodies (ie. school boards and such) are not up to date on popular Japanese entertainment and are too busy to keep up with what's popular on Bitorrent and Adult Swim. How do you expect them to react with a notebook with "Death Note" on the cover and the names of students and teachers written inside and no prior knowledge or understanding of what it's based on?
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tygerchickchibi
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o_o I mean, I wonder if any of these kids had some kind of past history...Are they even going to get help at all? x_x I hate such vague stories, seriously.... |
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stevek504
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Maybe that's a bit overboard. How about "if you look at 9/11, nearly every instance had a plane involved. Let's dissolve FAA and have a plane control." In fact I'm sure that many people, including relatives of victims of past 9/11 massacres for sure, would support this with both arms raised, but their voices are just too insignificant compared with aircraft companies and their lobbyists. or, How about "if you look at lung cancer, nearly every instance had a cigarette involved. Let's dissolve the cigarette industry and have a tobacco control." In fact I'm sure that many people, including relatives of victims of past lung cancer massacres for sure, would support this with both arms raised, but their voices are just too insignificant compared with tobacco companies and their lobbyists. Okay, that last example wasn't perfect. We know tobacco is addictive. Maybe flying planes into buildings is as well, but since they don't get another chance... My point is that it is the people that are the problem, not the thing involved. There are plenty of cases where a gun protected a person. Police cannot be every where at every time to protect you. Politicians and celebrities have guns (or maybe bodyguards / posse that have them). Why - I guess there are crazy people everywhere. The rich, famous, and political types know it and they take action by protecting themselves. So why can't poor people? I guess once we have a police state everything will be okay.
I am sure you are correct here, but it probably goes deeper. Insurance and liability. No one wants to get sued and loose everything if they can take a little action up front. The insurance companies probably give them a rate cut if they show they have a plan / policies on handling issues like this. I would think this applies to the school administrators, city, and state as they would all be sued if something were to happen. |
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Sven Viking
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stevek504: Not meaning to particularly support either side, but you should note that they already do have "plane control". And right or wrong, a lot of people already support tobacco control.
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One wing angle
Posts: 6 Location: prairie village, USA |
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honestly I think that in this day and age you can't go around wrighting peoples names who you want to die in a note book at school. waether your joking or not and nomatter what your intentions are we all know people flip out about this stuff. if you got problems with people thats fine but vent in your note book at home or at least keep it out of your school, they had to have known what would happen if they where to get cought with it or even if they where reported to be wrighting down peoples names down who they wanted to die. this is their oun fault and their punishment although kinda harsh atleast for one of them is rathe fitting. if your gona do something stupid like that and get the whole school and a legon of soccer moms in an uproar yeah your going to be punished to a fairly high degree, I still think expulsion is a little much but I don't know the depth of the situation.
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stevek504
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True. And there are some forms of gun control already in place. I just want us all to think about the issues a lot more. Maybe, like these school administrators, government is quick to take action so that they can say "look - we did something! Stop shouting, vote for us, and go away now." But, what they “do” is only for looks and won't help in the long run... Look at what they did for fuel issues. They gave incentives for farmers to grow corn for ethanol – now food prices are on the way up because corn syrup is, (used in everything) in short supply. Politicians - “Oh, we didn't know that would happen”. |
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BunnyCupCakes
Posts: 224 Location: The Sunshine State |
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Loosen up? At a time like this? And yet,we actually let kids be kids and let teens be teens and what is the outcome? Well you got Columbine,Virginia Tech & various other school violence. Doesn't matter if there was no death threat,matters have to be taken.We can't gurantee that these kids take this as some sick joke or not.We can't read their minds but their actions are something we have to be cautioned with. If a bunch of kids decided it would be fun to steal some candy from a candy shop and they're caught,what can they say to the authorities? "Oh....um,we just wanted to have alittle fun." Sure that's what they thought but they're actions can't just be pushed aside from that.Yeah,no one was harmed but it's still very suspicious. Schools can't take any chances at this state. [lol @ Paris Hilton xDDD] |
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Murasakisuishou
Posts: 1469 Location: NE Ohio |
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Great, another one of these cases. All I can say is keep punishing the little idiots; maybe someday they'll get it through their skulls to leave their Death Notes at home. We can't expect public schools to start making exceptions for perceived death threats, even if the 'threat' is just a joke, because there will come a case when a student has written names in their Death Note that actually turn out to be a hit list, and when the school is asked why they didn't do anything, they'll say that they just thought it was some joke from a cartoon. It's always best to error on the side of caution in cases like these. All I can say is that I hope people keep getting suspended, or better yet, expelled over these 'jokes'; wishing death on others, even if it's without any real intent to cause them harm, is never funny. Also, the public school systems will never change; the staff will always overreact to even the slightest hint of a threat against their student body. Kids need to learn this and just stay below the freaking radar.
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DKW
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Maybe I should explain the thought processes of the administration and police when they see something like this.
1. Someone makes a List of people they dislike or possibly hate Now here is where they begin making assumptions using the Moral Standard of Utilitarianism (Most Benefit for the Most People, Protecting the Most People) 2. Same person could go buy a knife, gun, crossbow, or start making bombs 3. Same person could start hunting down those people and killing them anywhere 4. To protect others, they need to act now 5. Removing the kids from school protects everyone else while they are in school 6. If something happens to the people on the list outside of school, those who owned the list will be rounded up and detained In the US legal system, Hate equals Motive. A list equals both a Motive and a Plan, whether hate is involved or not. Motive makes you a suspect. Motive + Plan makes you suspect #1. Well before Columbine, I have seen many a student expelled for having such a list. I can assure you that the students who had the list are all now in the police database just in case something actually happens to the people on the list, whether now or in the future. |
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crescendoll
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Hmm, the expulsion sounds like a pretty drastic action at first--which probably helps the school look responsive and responsible--but considering that there are probably only a few weeks of school left in the year at most, is it really that big a deal? Sure, it'll look kinda ugly on the kid's record, but there's no police involvement or anything. And (s)he may be allowed back at school in the fall, or just transfer to another school in the area. Overall, I think this particular incident has been handled as best as could possibly be expected.
Plus, I thought the principal was (unexpectedly?) sapient when he basically dismissed it as being "typical Japanese horror movie stuff and not a credible threat." Three cheers for levelheadedness. Also, not to condone these kids taking their Death Notes to school or whatever, but maybe this might be a bit of a wakeup call to this particular school to deal with their apparent bully problem...? One can hope, anyway. |
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fighterholic
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I think I know one thing I can say about this whole thing: That I'm laughing my ass off. Nothing new here, since I've had to see it so many times already and I've had to read through people's posts here who don't do much checking into the facts and accuse the school of acting too harsh or saying that writing people's names down in a notebook is harmless. How about let's get with the show here? First of all, we've had four incidents of this exact same type of event happen this year. In my opinion, the schools have done what was necessary as a safety precaution to their students and staff. It's better to be safe than to be too late and sorry. All you need is someone to be hurt and have a Death Note connected to the crime. Do any of you guys accusing the schools know how that would affect anime? Not in a great way.
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hikaru004
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I found it at various online merchants including Amazon ranging from $13.99-17.99. |
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TJ_Kat
Posts: 364 Location: Saskatoon, Canada |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. You've basically got some kids who are feeling alienated in some way who made a really stupid choice in how to vent their frustration. But rather than getting them some help in finding a better way to deal with their problems, they've just been alienated some more. While I do think the suspensions make sense, I think if they just leave it at that, it will only make things worse by giving the kids more names to add to their list. I think they need to take that next step and get them some counselling too. As for the kid who got expelled, my guess is that he's the one who wrote Bush's name in the book. Isn't it considered to be a pretty serious crime to threaten the president in the US? And finally to the people dismissing this as some harmless little joke. How do you know they don't really want these people to die? Oh, right, you don't. At the same time I don't know that it isn't just a harmless little joke, but better to err on the side of caution. |
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st_owly
Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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I wonder if it'd be any different if they'd just found a list of names in a notebook, without the words "death note" written on the front
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mrsatan
Posts: 909 Location: Olympia, WA, USA |
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Wow! Once again, my home of Washington State makes another world-famous anime scandal!
(We had the kid that died copying Gaara from Naruto as well.) |
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