March 22, 2001 DEADLY CONSEQENCES Today, the news is becoming all too familiar. A school shooting. With the most recent occurring in a small suburb of San Diego, CA. Two teenagers dead, 13 injured and thousands traumatized. We?ve seen it all before, but each time, the heart is ripped again. The kids are white again; the shooter is a boy again - and once again, he?s a kid who got picked on at school all the …showed first 75 words of 406 total…

…showed last 75 words of 406 total…they need to see that in their classrooms, in their school libraries, in their teachers? eyes, and at home with their parents that they are important and we will give them the best we have to offer. As long as American public schools are monuments to diaggreement about what, exactly, our children deserve, our teenagers will conclude that nothing they feel, learn, or do, really matters. We have seen the consequences, and they are deadly.