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re: Mental illness
SteveS — (archived)

Seems every incident like this reveals warning signs of the individuals committing these types of murders yet we have failed to take the necessary steps in providing the proper treatment to help prevent them.

We are now finding out that students had complained to the police and teachers had recommended counseling. Maybe this incident will make it clear that we need to change our approach to troubled students.
I’m not implying that we go back to teachers wailing rulers across knuckles, but some form of (for the lack of a better words) 'political correct relief' for the faculty to demand a suspected troubled person attend a program designed to help them.

I can see where Cho could choose not to attend such a demanded program and if one was to expel a troubled person they could just back with the same and probably more intense vengeance to commit the same crime. So it wouldn’t stop all disturbed people, but I would think required therapy is the best solution available.

Going out in glory, that’s a tough one.

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