Shooting Fallout – Is This What We Want?

Google news has almost 70 stories listed with headlines like “Massacre fallout: Charges for essay” and “High school senior charged after writing ‘disturbing’ essay.”
You can read the details but as I understand the story, a senior high school class in northern Illinois was assigned to write an essay that, among other things, was to communicate emotions. Eighteen-year-old, straight A student Allen Lee’s essay ended with a statement to the effect that some of the schools methods of teaching could lead to a shooting.
As a result, Lee was arrested after school and charged with disorderly conduct because his teacher was …read more