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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding paragraph was not up to our standards. The comments to this story are spot on. You expect better than this and we let you down. There are so many comments referring to this paragraph, we cannot just delete it, hence the strike-through. More to follow.]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tathra on Saturday August 30 2014, @05:40PM
so in other words, "not getting laid" was more of a symptom of larger problems, like a lack of social skills and social support and in some cases unrealistic expectations of others, and not really the problem at all.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @06:05PM
From Elliot Rodger's own words:-
So, it was most definitely because he couldn't get laid. But what compounded the problem was his height (which led to him being bullied repeatedly and gave him anxiety about his attractiveness), negative experiences with almost all females younger than his grandmothers and the world-class success of the people around him. For example, before his parents got divorced, one of their neighbors commercialized barcodes and was worth US$40 million. After his parents got divorced, he was acutely embarrassed that he was living in a Hollywood apartment without a swimming pool. At school, that made him one of the poor kids on two counts.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by tathra on Saturday August 30 2014, @06:31PM
i stand by my point, its a symptom of larger problems. this is a case of tunnel vision, being too focused on one thing to see the broader picture and real problem, and you can't fix a problem if you don't know what it is. if his only problem was wanting to get laid he could've gotten hookers, but since he didn't (or if he did, it obviously didnt address his real needs) it shows that the real problem was the isolation and lack of social support. if he had friends, he could've gotten them to act as wingmen and help get him hooked up, but he lacked the social skills and the confidence to use them (from his own words, due to being bullied - abused - as a child). thinking he could get a woman beyond just a hooker without the proper social skills and effort is an example of unrealistic expectations of others.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @07:12PM
Any of these killers could have found a prostitute, used a date rape drug or become a gunpoint/knifepoint rapist but they wanted to have an ongoing relationship with a woman and raise a family. When to honorable path became astronomically remote, they weren't defeated. They didn't commit suicide. They came to the public's attention in a spectacular fashion. To ask the question "Why did this case happen?" is misguided. We should be asking "Why are such cases rare?" and "How can we improve the MTBF?"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @09:08PM
Oh, puhleeze! Sop right now! You are breaking my heart! Maybe we should start a charity for for these poor Hollywood youth? The script for the TV commercial charity pitch practically writes itself:
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:54PM
He was bullied repeatedly because of his size which adversely affected his esteem and ability to form relationships with girls. Then he was bullied due to the reduced status which accompanied divorce which adversely affected his esteem and ability to form relationships with girls. Then, after requesting to enrol at a private boys school (specifically to avoid girls) he was further bullied until he dropped out. Despite being able to write 100,000 words coherently, he barely graduated.
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