Archivo etiqueta «Violencia en la escuela»
By Madelyn Rosenberg, a freelance writer in Arlington (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/04/07):
I wasn’t born in Blacksburg, Va., but I lived there most of my life. If my husband hadn’t dragged me to a bigger city — “where something actually happens and restaurants serve more than hamburgers” — I’d be there still.
Your home town defines you. It helps make you what you are. Now that this thing, this massacre, has defined my home town, I wonder if my definition is going to change, too.
Last August, when a gunman committed a double murder in Blacksburg, people said the … Seguir leyendo
By Roy Ferri, a teacher and coach at Centreville High School (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/04/07):
My daughter, Colette, never had a babysitter. My wife and I wouldn’t leave her in the care of a stranger — or with her grandparents, all of whom live within 10 miles of us. For years we sacrificed vacations, trips to the movies and even church. We were the couple with the screaming kid on the airplane and in restaurants. Our daughter was as protected from the world as any two parents could possibly manage.
Before we knew it, 18 years had flown by. … Seguir leyendo
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/04/07):
Don’t try to make sense of the horrific killings at Virginia Tech, at least not yet. Don’t try to make those involved into archetypes — the gun-wielding loner, the valiant young heroes, the dithering college officials — and fit them into a familiar, comfortable narrative. Don’t rush to draw lessons about guns or alienation or funding for mental health services. Not yet.
This shattered community hasn’t even had time to learn what happened, let alone why. It’s understandable that authorities would be cautious in releasing the names of the 32 students and … Seguir leyendo
By Richard Cohen (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/04/07):
In my day, Fort Dix, N.J., billed itself as the home of the Ultimate Weapon. That weapon, depicted by a heroic statue at the front gate, was the lowly infantryman armed only with his rifle and appearing to shout something like “Follow me!” This was the Army’s way of countering the glamour of the other services, particularly the Air Force. It took boots on the ground — not planes overhead — to really win a war. It took, in short, the ultimate weapon. No one could kill better.
Now from Blacksburg, Va., … Seguir leyendo
By Bernhard Warner, formerly Reuters’ internet correspondent in Europe and senior editor for The Industry Standard Europe. He writes about technology, the internet and media industries (THE TIMES, 18/04/07):
On April 12, an 18-year-old blogger with the handle ntcoolfool posted a brief, unexceptional tribute to the deceased American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, for which he received three equally unexceptional responses. On Monday, ntcoolfool’s blog became a scrolling newsreel, providing harrowing details, replete with photos and video footage, of a massacre unfolding below his window. The Virginia Tech university student, identified on his website as Bryce Carter, began reporting in real-time, … Seguir leyendo
By Bronwen Maddox (THE TIMES, 18/04/07):
Not everyone concludes that tighter gun controls might prevent more gun deaths, although this has been the common conclusion on this side of the Atlantic. As the fatal shooting of 32 people at Virginia Tech sent the US into new analysis of one of its most controversial personal freedoms, some American commentators argued that if only students had been allowed to take their own arms into classrooms, they could have fought back.
Michelle Malkin, a well-known conservative blogger, attacking The New York Times’s call for tighter gun laws, declaimed that “apparently it’s creepy … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Jenkins (THE GUARDIAN, 18/04/07):
The global image of the American school was once of wholesome youths laden with books and cheerleader pompoms. More recently it has become one of over-armed and overweight policemen racing to take up firing positions while students run screaming with terror.My first response to Monday’s horror at Blacksburg, Virginia, was please, let it not be an Arab. The particular would instantly have become general and a madman a terrorist. Such is the degradation of public response to violence these days that nothing is allowed to be what it probably is, the random act of … Seguir leyendo
Por Pello Salaburu (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 18/04/07):
Cada vez que sucede una matanza indiscriminada como la que ha tenido lugar en la Universidad Politécnica de Virginia se alude a la enorme permisividad que existe en EEUU con respecto a la posesión de armas por parte de personas particulares, así como a los intereses de la industria armamentística para que las cosas sigan igual. Eso, sin lugar a dudas, es así, pero no sé si eso sólo explica el hecho de que a algún venado le dé de vez en cuando por coger un rifle y emprenderla a tiros contra los … Seguir leyendo
By Lucinda Roy, a co-director of the creative writing program at Virginia Tech, and the author, most recently, of the novel “The Hotel Alleluia” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/04/07):
A FEW months ago, when I returned from a trip to Sierra Leone, a country I lived in for years and one still reeling from the effects of a brutal civil war, I was filled with relief to be returning to a crime-free place like Blacksburg. As usual, I was welcomed by the Blue Ridge Mountains, and by the friends I’ve grown to love during my 22 years on the … Seguir leyendo
By Gerard Baker (THE TIMES, 17/04/07):
By the desensitising standards of routine American gun violence, yesterday’s shootings at Virginia Tech university were shocking only in their scale. Over more than 20 years, Americans have got grimly used to a ritual that plays out on the cable news every few months. The initial news is sketchy, reports of shots fired at a campus or in a schoolyard. Then, the first confused images of students running terrified from classrooms, black-clothed Swat teams gingerly pressing into doorways; the press conference in which some dazed school principal or university president mutters the first incomplete … Seguir leyendo
Por Álvaro Marchesi, catedrático de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (EL PAÍS, 26/11/06):
Posiblemente ahora hay más violencia en los centros docentes que hace unas décadas o, al menos, así se percibe. Tal vez porque hay más alumnos que estudian durante más tiempo, por fortuna para ellos y para la sociedad, y porque los cambios sociales se producen ahora de forma vertiginosa, de manera que tienden a difuminarse los referentes morales. No se vislumbra en el futuro un cambio de esta situación. Más bien da la impresión de que estas tendencias, lejos … Seguir leyendo
Por Ricardo Moreno Castillo, profesor del Instituto Gregorio Marañón, profesor asociado en la Universidad Complutense y autor del Panfleto antipedagógico (EL PAÍS, 26/11/06):
Para resolver un problema se ha de averiguar su causa, y la de la violencia en nuestras aulas no está, dígase lo que se diga, ni en los cambios sociales, ni en la televisión, ni en la presencia de inmigrantes. Está, sencillamente, en que nuestro sistema educativo no educa, es un sistema perverso porque ejerce la violencia y la tolera.
La ejerce sobre los que quieren estudiar, y no pueden por culpa de quienes boicotean la … Seguir leyendo
Por Joan J. Queralt, catedrático de Derecho Penal de la UB (EL PERIÓDICO, 19/11/06):
El fiscal jefe de Catalunya va a perseguir las agresiones contra maestros y médicos como delitos de atentado, es decir, como si de guardias o alguaciles se tratara. La Fiscalía General del Estado presta un apoyo más bien matizado a esta iniciativa. Por su parte, la presidenta del Tribunal Superior de Justícia de Catalunya no comparte esta medida y considera que la solución está en la educación. Situados así los términos del enfoque judicial de la violencia escolar y hospitalaria no parece que se vaya … Seguir leyendo
Por Andrés Montero Gómez, presidente de la Sociedad Española de Psicología de la Violencia (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 09/11/06):
Que un adolescente pegue a un profesor tiene mucha relación con la fallida educación proporcionada por sus padres. Un alumno propina una paliza a un compañero en el colegio o le acosa o amenaza a un profesor y enseguida pensamos que se trata de un problema educativo, un problema escolar. De hecho, se utilizan las denominaciones de acoso o violencia escolar. Pues, en realidad, es un problema que se manifiesta en la escuela, sí, pero que se genera en las familias.… Seguir leyendo
Por Agustín Domingo Moratalla (ABC, 04/11/06):
EL vídeo de la agresión a un profesor en un instituto de Alicante ha vuelto a remover los cimientos de la comunidad educativa. Realizado por una compañera del alumno agresor con una intención que desborda lo puramente lucrativo, las imágenes difundidas describen una situación que sin ser alarmante está empezando a ser preocupante. Y lo más curioso de las imágenes no se encuentra en la vulnerabilidad del profesor cuando intenta escapar sino en la actitud del alumno agresor que culpa al profesor dando a entender que actúa en legítima defensa.
Probablemente este alumno y … Seguir leyendo