From: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:26:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Some children are rabid and need to be put down
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Tim May writes:

> And from what I've heard about this little girl, it's beginning to sound
> like she ought to be put down like a dog that can't stop biting. Or at
> least kicked out of the school completely...perhaps a reform school will
> straighten her out. 

In other Florida news, a 23 year old female daycare worker picked up a
kitchen knife and stabbed a mother to death, after the mother complained
that the worker had hit and pinched her 5 year old son. 

We don't really know what the counselor said or did to this 5 year old
girl before the biting started, and given the anti-youth bias of the
mainstream press, we are unlikely to find out.  Even if some horrendous
tale of harrassment by school staff emerges, it will simply be suggested
that they were "disciplining" her for her "behavior problem." 

Now she may have a legitimate problem, and may have started biting and
scratching in response to the counselor saying - "Good morning.  You look
lovely today." 

Then again.... 

It is rarely useful to take things like this at face value, especially
given the spin control talents of school administrators and the teachers
union.

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"