Posted on 04/19/2007 2:41:41 PM PDT by alcenoo
Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was pushed around and laughed at as a schoolboy in suburban Washington because of his shyness and the strange, mumbly way he talked, former classmates say.
Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.
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As a society, should we go out of our way to make sure loners and losers are given the attention they need ?
boo-freekin’-hoo.
I was picked on in high school, but I didn’t go and rub out 32 people. Besides, there was 31 in my high school.
I am thinking a LOT of people (i.e. GOVERNMENTEMPLOYEES) missed the boat on this one...
They were probably on break, or it was not their job, or their shift was over, or something...
Cruelty to children is the basis for all other cruelty that follows.
The basis or the excuse?
I was picked on in school. I was the odd person out from the 4th grade until I graduated high school. I never, not even once, thought about killing them.
I don’t go back for reunions! But I don’t plan on killing anyone.
The shooter is alone responsible for his actions.
I wonder how this kind of person ever made the grades necessary to attend VT? How he could make C in a class escapes me.
As has been discussed on multiple threads here today, it’s his fault. Not mine.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820082/posts
Maybe a basis, but the shooter alone is responsible for his actions.
The professor’s class that Cho attended -— and other female students refused to attend -— was that of poet Nikki Giovanni.
Nikki Giovanni has strong issues with the United States and American culture.
In an article in The Courier (don’t know the publication, found this on Ask.com when I searched her name)Ms. Giovanni said the women refused to come to class because he had been taking pics of them under the desk -— their legs etc. Said the poetry he wrote was ‘invasive’ — apparently sexual poems about the women.
Poor baby.
Life is just not fair.
Let’s all go psycho!
Learning to deal is part of life.
We all get teased and harrassed somehow or someway growing up. Hell even get into fights. Imagine that.
Kids can be cruel. Just the way it is.
I skipped seventh grade as I went into a new school. You want to talk about picked on - a new 12 year old boy among 13 year old boys.
Guess what? I turned out OK.
Loop holes, loop holes! :-)
Judging from the actions of some of their previous football players, I don’t think you necessarily have to be a Rhodes scholar to get into VT.
When I relocated to a new neighborhood and a new school when I was 13, I was harrassed while riding the school bus home. The first thing I did was to level the bully with a right hook to the jaw the second we stepped off. While he layed flat on his back out cold for the rest of the riders to see. Needless to say, we soon became best friends after that little attitude adjusment. When word spread throughout the school the next day, no one dared even think about bustin’ my balls.
I wonder what makes some people more resilient than others? Or, would Cho have done something else evil if he had not been picked on? Interesting to think about but of course, he’s responsible for what he did. On the other hand, it’s difficult for me to imagine schools that allow blatant bullying to go on. Having taught school, I know if I saw it, I would intervene. Not that kids won’t tease each other out of the eye of an adult, but I just am trying to imagine that no adult saw a problem and tried to do something. It’s puzzling and disturbing.
susie
He’s mentally ill. We should go out of our way to identify such people and get them the treatment they need or lock ‘em up where they can’t hurt anyone.
Seems like it was a government employee manifest in his identity as a Judge who screwed up in 2005.
Feelings.......woah-woah-woah.....feelings........
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