Archivo etiqueta «Violencia en la escuela»
Por Javier Elzo, catedrático emérito de Deusto (EL PERIÓDICO, 14/01/09):
Tal vez ustedes, como yo, hayan tenido ocasión de ver recientemente en la televisión una grabación, hecha en junio del 2006 por uno de los alumnos del Colegio Suizo de Madrid, en la que se aprecia cómo durante un recreo varios estudiantes se burlan de un menor (de 10 años) y le golpean. Según leo en la prensa, “hasta 21 veces con la mano y un estuche blando en la cabeza, las piernas y la espalda”.
La Audiencia de Madrid ha condenado al centro, sosteniendo que hay un “nexo… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Carlos Rodríguez, investigador de Analistas Socio-Políticos y profesor de Sociología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (EL MUNDO, 01/10/08):
Los sucesos acontecidos hace unos días en un instituto de Finlandia, que desembocaron en el asesinato de una decena de personas y el suicidio del asesino, un joven de 22 años, vuelven a traer a la discusión pública el problema de la violencia juvenil, sus causas y los modos de prevenirla o paliarla. Cuando se trata de una matanza cometida con un arma de fuego, el reflejo condicionado de muchos políticos, periodistas y ciudadanos del común es poner en… Seguir leyendo
Por Pedro González-Trevijano, rector de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ABC, 19/05/07):
He dejado pasar un tiempo, antes de desbrozar estas reflexiones sobre la matanza en el Virginia Tech, situada en la ciudad de Blacksburg, en la que eran asesinados treinta y dos estudiantes, y se hería a otros veintinueve. La escena debió de ser dantesca. Alumnos que saltaban por las ventanas, se arrastraban por el suelo, improvisaban barricadas o se hacían los muertos, mientras un profesor -superviviente de los horrores del Holocausto-, perdía la vida, al tratar de bloquear las puertas. Y lo he hecho de forma premeditada, pues… Seguir leyendo
By Mike White, the screenwriter of “School of Rock” and, most recently, “Year of the Dog” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/05/07):
THE first movie I ever made was called “Death Creek Camp.” It told the age-old story of a group of teenage guys who set out on a fun-filled wilderness excursion only to be stalked and murdered by a psychopath disguised in a hockey mask and a blue kimono. It was no masterpiece of cinema.
Most of the scenes played out the same way — one of the fresh-faced hikers would get separated from the group. He would hear a… Seguir leyendo
By Dave Cullen, who is writing a book about the Columbine killers (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27/04/07):
A JUDGE ruled this month that depositions by the parents of the gunmen in the 1999 Columbine school shootings would remain sealed until 2027. It would be tragic to also have to wait 28 years to hear from the family of Seung-Hui Cho, the killer at Virginia Tech. But the tense legal standoff that led to the Columbine ruling is likely to repeat itself in Virginia if we don’t quickly devise an alternative.
In the Columbine case, as in Virginia Tech, the killers’… Seguir leyendo
Por Niall Ferguson, profesor de Historia Laurence A. Tisch de la Universidad de Harvard y miembro de la junta de gobierno del Jesus College de Oxford. Traducción: José María Puig de la BellacasA (LA VANGUARDIA, 23/04/07):
Era previsible. Cho Seung Hui era un taciturno solitario, de humor cambiante, inestable. Cuatro de sus profesores habían mostrado su preocupación a la vista del contenido de sus trabajos académicos o de su conducta en clase. Tras las quejas de dos alumnas, los servicios de seguridad del campus y un consejero de los servicios psicológicos del instituto politécnico de Virginia (Virginia Tech) hicieron… Seguir leyendo
By David S. Broder (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/04/07):
On the campus of the University of Memphis, where I was visiting for part of last week, the news of the Virginia Tech mass killings struck with special force. Not only were these students, like those in Blacksburg, Va., attending a large public university with a big commuter population, but they still recall the scars of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was gunned down in this city 39 years ago this month.
Meeting with students at the journalism school, I was reminded that no campus these days… Seguir leyendo
By Marina Hyde (THE GUARDIAN, 21/04/07):
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, the spectacle of principled folk feeling the need to reassert their principles has not been uniformly edifying. Had all the students been armed, stated one rifle lobbyist on Monday, the massacre would never have happened. From NBC, who opted to air the material mailed to them by Cho Seung-hui, there were the thoughts of network president Steve Capus. “This is, I think, as close as we will ever come to being inside the mind of a killer,” he posited.
Writing in the conservative National Review, self-styled… Seguir leyendo
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/04/07):
If people noticed anything at all about Cho Seung Hui, it seems, they were struck by his silence. He wouldn’t respond in class. He wouldn’t talk to his roommates. Making his way across the Virginia Tech campus, he was quiet as a ghost.
But when he was alone, at a keyboard or in front of a camera, he had volumes to say. “You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience,” he proclaimed in the video he mailed to NBC News between Act One and Act Two of his rampage.… Seguir leyendo
By David Chartrand, a freelance writer, who is completing a book on how American communities and schools have dealt with mental illness and depression among children (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/04/07):
When it comes to school gunmen (and, yes, they’re usually male) what may seem like random acts of madness are usually premeditated.
“The most frequent motive was revenge,” the Secret Service concluded in a 2002 study of 37 school shootings. As part of the Safe Schools Initiative it undertook with the Education Department after the 1999 Columbine killings, agents reviewed cases and interviewed 10 school shooters. They found that school… Seguir leyendo
By Christopher Whitcomb, the chief executive of a security company. He was a sniper on the F.B.I.’s hostage rescue unit and the author of two novels, “Black” and “White” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/04/07):
I WAS at my desk at the F.B.I.’s Critical Incident Response Group on April 20, 1999, when a colleague ducked his head into my office and asked if I’d heard the news. A school shooting in Colorado. Some place called Columbine. At least 10 dead. Columbine, I remember thinking as I clicked on the bank of TVs on the far wall. Where in God’s name is… Seguir leyendo
By E.J. Dionne Jr. (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/04/07):
Why do we have the same futile argument every time there is a mass killing?
Advocates of gun control try to open a discussion about whether more reasonable weapons statutes might reduce the number of violent deaths. Opponents of gun control shout “No!” Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, they say, and anyway, if everybody were carrying weapons, someone would have taken out the murderer and all would have been fine.
And we do nothing.
This is a stupid argument, driven by the stupid politics of gun control in the United… Seguir leyendo
By Stephen Joel Trchtenberg, president of George Washington University (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/04/07):
The horrifying killings at Virginia Tech on Monday leave us grieving and troubled. They also leave us — especially those like me who lead colleges and universities — with difficult questions to ask and, then, to try to answer.
The most complex and emotional question is: Could this massacre have been prevented by getting Cho Seung Hui into counseling — or, as some have suggested, by removing this young man from Virginia Tech’s campus? This is a university administrator’s nightmare.
GW was in the news last year… Seguir leyendo
By Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University and the author of the forthcoming “Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19/04/07):
THE sticky note on my door was wiggling. It was a gift from a student.
Glued to the middle of it was a cockroach.
Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t that I was an unpopular professor. To the contrary — according to student evaluations, I might as well have had a sign on my forehead that said “Kindly.”
I was told later that… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan A. Herrero Brasas, profesor de Ética Social en la Universidad del Estado de California, EEUU (EL MUNDO, 19/04/07):
La espantosa matanza que, a manos de un estudiante, ha tenido lugar en una Universidad del Estado de Virginia (Virginia Tech) hará que se intensifique el debate sobre la libre venta de armas en Estados Unidos, instalado nuevamente en los medios. A preguntas de los periodistas, el portavoz de la Casa Blanca ha respondido que éste no es el momento de entrar en tal asunto, sino de pensar en las víctimas y acompañar en el dolor a sus familiares.
No… Seguir leyendo