Posted on 01/10/2013 11:56:29 AM PST by Jyotishi
Waianae, Hawaii - Emergency Medical Services officials say a 19-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition after a stabbing at Waianae High School Friday.
Honolulu police responded just before 12:30 p.m.
The Department of Education says two students, both 19-year-old men, got into an altercation during class time right before lunch. They were outside near the basketball court.
The suspect stabbed the victim with a pocketknife, according to the DOE. The victim suffered lacerations and taken to Queen's Medical Center.
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There are some pretty dangerous areas in Waianae.
There was a time in America when almost man and boy carried a pocket knife to use as a handy tool, to whittle with, to open mail, etc. Why don’t we ask ourselves, “What has changed?” The knives didn’t.
DING! The light just came on. IT’S THE SCHOOLS! We need to ban schools (also known as indoctrination centers) for the childrens sake.
Stop radical left wing extremists trying to gut the BOR!
Nineteen year old high school students, eh?
Must be a liberal state.
Oh, forgot.
A little early for “Kill Haole Day.”
A stabbing..........Let’s ban GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waianae is comparable to the Englewood District on Chicago’s south side - ie “local” underclass with high crime rate - out on the leeward side of the island of Oahu
Too bad bra, 6 years of high school education down the drain...
“Here’s the obligatory - Ban pocket knives!”
BAN SCHOOLS!
day-um, now da kine makamakalolo’s flunked lunch
that wad da course they passing, only
Waianae is the palestine of Hawaii.
Human nature being the same then as now, however, there were no incidents involving the use of either a knife or a gun among the boys. Disagreements were frequent, sometimes involving heated scuffling or fist fights which ended when a teacher or principal intervened and cooled tempers.
Life went on, and the participants grew up, raised their families in the community, and generations followed generations, with the same patterns of behavior emerging.
The church and school were the centers of community life, and the home was where additional punishments for bad behavior at school or in the community were meted out. By the same token, the home and church, reinforced by school teachers and principals, largely emphasized the "self-evident" truth that youth, as well as teachers and parents, were accountable to a Higher Authority for their behavior--that one should not take what belonged to another, that one should not hurt another person, and that there were consequences both here and in the hereafter for violations of such laws.
In a rural area, then, as now, a slingshot would kill a bird and injure a fellow student; a rock, well-thrown, could kill or injure another student; a knife could injure or kill; the hunting rifle could kill; hammers, baseball bats, and other items could be converted into weapons for expressing anger and inflicting damage.
What changed?
Certainly, the change was not in human nature! And, the change was not in the availability of weaponry for hurting people.
Reading from the textbooks and educational materials of the schools in America from its founding to the mid-20th Century, however, one finds that those textbooks and materials were filled with stories, poems, and various materials from many sources, including religious writings, which emphasized responsibility and accountability to a Supreme Being. Those textbooks used a variety of resources to encourage and build upon the religious teachings of the home--all of which made the individual character and citizenship of pupils a goal of the classroom.
As late as the mid-20th Century, even the NEA published materials, including a series of little books, to be circulated throughout all the schools of the nation, which included Bible verses and other such writings designed to build character and responsibility to God for one's behavior.
Such was the training of a nation of future citizens when the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence was the dominant force in education. That was prior to the so-called "progressive" movement which persuaded State and local education authorities that such teaching was "unconstitutional" and to be eliminated from the public square.
Will Biden and his fellow "progressives" focus on the weaponry of violence? Or, will they, for once, look deep within their own regressive "progressive" ranks to find possible causes for the changes described herein?
We need to ban ALL knives. Even the kind honest citizens use to cut their meat. Or butter their bread.
There are those of us who don’t want people stabbed and evil ‘others’ who want innocent people stabbed. Only two kinds people so BAN ALL knives. Kitchen, pocket, carving, whatever... If you love the children you’ll hand in all knives until stick laws can be passed outlawing knives.
We need to ban ALL knives. Even the kind honest citizens use to cut their meat.
Or butter their bread.
There are those of us who don’t want people stabbed and evil ‘others’ who want innocent people stabbed. Only two kinds people so BAN ALL knives. Kitchen, pocket, carving, whatever... If you love the children you’ll hand in all knives until strict laws can be passed outlawing knives.
I remember the “South shore” being full of homeless encampments on the beach. Now I see the PGA Tour is making a stop nearby. I guess I did see a fairly nice mall somewhere around that area. Just got back from Oahu and didn’t go near the south shore.
As late as the mid-20th Century, even the NEA published materials, including a series of little books, to be circulated throughout all the schools of the nation, which included Bible verses and other such writings designed to build character and responsibility to God for one's behavior.
Such was the training of a nation of future citizens when the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence was the dominant force in education.
Freedom is possible only when the moral foundation is firm. With such a foundation people are capable of governing themselves, and need cops and courts primarily as referees.
They have neither need nor desire for a king.
In the absense of such a moral foundation people have neither the ability nor the will to govern themselves. They will demand a king and they will find one.
Nineteen and still in high school. Must be part of nobama’s choom gang, selling drugs on campus and not wanting to leave his buyers. Shouldn’t one graduate from high school at 16-17?
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