Who do yo uthink is responible for Colubine the Parents or the kids & why?

Answer 1

Society, for not teaching people how to be parents in the first place. For not creating an environment where children are able to become themselves without fear of recrimination. Where individuality is dangerous and self-expression punished rather than channeled.
This is such a confusing place to grow up: on one side you have the conservatives telling you that to be different is wrong, and you have the liberals who offer little direction.
This country is polarized and children are caught in the middle. I think that neither side is really correct. We really need a center which honors who people are, yet offers if not structure, at least help and affirmation. Children need to be taught how to offer their children morals without stifling them. They need to learn to express their individuality, their arts, their minds and their hearts and to honor and accept others.
Many children grow up in violent places (either homes or schools) and violence becomes their coping mechanism. It happens with Christian children (not all) who believe that gays and planned parenthood workers and liberals are all workers of the demonic. It happens with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and transgendered children, who, getting assaulted verbally or physically most every day, begin to fight back in the same manner. It happens to the lonely who find that violence gets attention. But a zero tollerance program toward violence will only shut it up for a time; it will not cure it.
Society needs to change; not such that teaching that violence is wrong, but in teaching that violence mustn't be the answer to situations. If you don't like someone, the first thoght outn't to be "If I hit him, that would be wrong", but rather I don't like him now, but I wish him well and maybe someday we might be friends." It's about attitudes. It's about recognizing that for as long as violence will be an option, it will remain for some an answer.

Answer 2

I dont think it can be reduced to being just a strange kid or bad parenting, although they WERE strange kids is has to be said.
I think given the whole shame associated with not being popular, it was only a matter of time. Kids cant just be a loner without getting pinished for it buy other kids, they cant be a geek, if they arent one of the popular group then they will experince some form of nastiness for not being part of it or like them. Kids cant be themselves, in every class there is a kid or two who for some reason, perhaps a lack of confidence or social skills, or perhaps just that God made them loners, and end up alone. If it is not that kids nature, then in addition to already feeling bad and lonely, they know that that popular kids actively look down on them and wont let them find a way in even if they tried really hard. Kids arent allowed to be themselves and have whatever social arrangements they want, and other kids cant tolerate difference in social arrangements. Its sad, and how long before we face up to how victimised some children are in school? The fact those two boys are columbine killed themselves showed they had given up on ever being normal, and they wrote of years of abuse at the hands of other kids in their school. What they did was unbelievably indiscriminate and wrong, but what could have prevented this from happeing aside from gun laws changing?
I doubt they would have gone so completely mad if their classmates had not made them feel so worthless and angry that they thought in their sick minds that this was good answer for it.No one can say that the way less popular kids suffer is right, some kill themselves instead of others. We really need to think about this and what can be said to teenagers to make them think how they mistreat, ostracise and judge others just for having a different social arrangement, or a smaller no of friends.

Answer 3

Parents have a pretty big job. they teach their kids how to control a car, but many neglect to teach their kids how to control and govern thought. Without a proper basis for thought, a young adult may believe bad is good and good is useless or bad. If kids were exposed to spiritual good from the outset, things would certainly be different. However, neglect or ignorance is not the father of evil. The parents have a lot to do with how their kids think and feel because they establish their basis. Some of the responsibility does fall on the parents. But ultimately, any young adult (or person) experimenting with evil is fully responsible for their actions.

Answer 4

The parents. How is it that a child would or could have that much free time to surf the Net, build bombs, obtain weapons? In such a case it indicates there is an absentee parent on board (meaning the parent has other things, issues occupying the mind and time rather than what is going on with their child). A parents' job is just that, to parent their chil(dren); to ask questions, obtain information about their child(ren) life, discipline, etc. You can not truly and solely hold a child responsible for their actions in all instances...this would be one. If parents were actively involved, shootings would probably occur less at these schools.

Answer 5

A combination really: The parents super-busy lifestyle led to negligent child-rearing, which in turn fed the insecurities of the children who were already facing persecution from their peers, all of which built up to an extremely explosive moment in US history.

Answer 6

The kids. you can make excuses that the parents should have paid more attention but those kids where in an environment were they could succeed. Kids in the inner city don't have the advantages those boys had and they make it out. Its called accountability.

Answer 7

The Columbine kids were bullied unmercifully for years , they finally struck back. Wish I had done that in my school. woulda taught a lot of buttheads a lesson.

Answer 8

The kids. Children hide their feelings, and what they tell their parents are mostly fake. Kids treat other kids like crap. Which works them up.

Answer 9

both share responsibility