Comments on: School Starts in Shanghai, 4 Students Commit Suicide

By: Dr. Phillips

Dr. Phillips — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:12:45 +0000

I love how everybody trashes this generation as though they are lazy, ignorant whelps, unable to handle pressure, who have doomed the human race. Five minutes of research at your local library would have revealed that suicide rates are the same now as they were fifty years ago (in the United States, anyway). Don’t blame society, video games, or loud music. It’s just part of the human condition. That you hear more about it is thanks to the evolution of news-media, which now floods your home, your workplace, your everything and everywhere.

By: CX873

CX873 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:41:55 +0000

Ah, yes, Lowell High School. I actually decided not to apply for that school (even though my teachers tried to get me to) because of the pressure. And the suicides. Hell, my algebra teacher knew one of the dead.

By: 4chuan

4chuan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:06:40 +0000

v-tech was done by a Korean dude.

By: jessica

jessica — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:42:29 +0000

i believe we should not blame it on anyone, ife is a roller coaster ride and we have emotioms that change one min. to the next, and some can’t deal with them and ya we have to blame the kids who make it hard on others but maybe that’s there way of helping there self, but it does not make it right, love everyone

By: eyeofaughra

eyeofaughra — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:21:55 +0000

Video on Compulsory Schooling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uexMYBkfCic

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By: anon

anon — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:01:27 +0000

“At least in the West children don’t kill themselves en masse over the brutality of school.”

You have some short memory. Weren’t the Littleton high school and Virginia Tech massacres in the West? The perpetrators not only killed themselves, but dozens of schoolmates and teachers as well.

By: Pieman

Pieman — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:46:09 +0000

I thought memorizing was the first step in learning?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:14:25 +0000

Its an Asian education thing. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, all of those cultures, if you fail at education you are worthless. Cram schools, school from 7am to 5pm and cram school until 10.

Absolutely horrible mental condition these kids are growing up in. Worse they are not learning, merely memorizing, the result is people not able to apply their knowledge.

At least in the West children don’t kill themselves en masse over the brutality of school.

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