This is the first in a series of entries I wrote for a class last year. The following was written shortly after the Virginia Tech shooting.
People are stupid. Every time something happens, they all over-react and make rules that are more hindrance than help.
Take, for example, locking classroom doors. This rule is designed to keep students sage, but it results in students having to jump up every tem minutes to let another student in.
If someone wants to kill students, for whatever reason, it will happen. There are so many ways, unfortunately, that it could happen that trying to compensate would be ridiculous. To account for this, schools make some random rule to make parents and the media happy. The result of this is that every time something happens somewhere, thousands of students are inconvenienced a little more. Every time, ti seems like this will be the last inconvenience, but then another thing happens, and we are pushed further towards total uselessness.
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