【海外の反応】コロンバイン事件後にアメリカの高校で導入された“謎ルール”がガバガバすぎる件

They banned trench coats and stopped letting the seniors go off campus for lunch.

A few years after I asked a teacher if they could arrange to have an adult in the hallway where my locker was because someone kept harassing me.

I was threatened with a suspension for fighting if anything were to happen.

I expressed confusion at being threatened for trying to avoid a fight.

I was then asked if I was going to pull a Columbine.

No trench coats, and they started locking the front door during school, but didn’t lock any other doors. It was dumb

No more hunting guns in your truck at school

Funny thing about the Internet.

You can look up old forums where people talked about it at the time 

>https://m.slashdot.org/story/14525

>Minutes after the "Kids That Kill" column was posted on Slashdot and all through the weekend, I received a steady stream of e-mail from middle and high school kids from across the country — especially from self-described oddballs. They were in trouble, or saw themselves that way, to one degree or another, in the hysteria that swept the nation after the shootings in Colorado.

>Many of these kids saw themselves as targets of a new hunt for oddballs — suspects in a bizarre, systematic search for the strange and the alienated. Suddenly, in this tyranny of the normal, to be different wasn't just about feeling unhappy, it was to be dangerous.

>Schools everywhere openly embraced Geek Profiling. One group calling itself the National School Safety Center issued a checklist of "dangerous signs" to watch for in kids: It included mood swings, a fondness for violent TV or video games, cursing depression, antisocial behavior and attitudes. (I don't know about you, but I bat a thousand).

>The panic was fueled by a ceaseless bombardment of powerful, televised images of the mourning and grief in Colorado, images that stir the emotions and demand some sort of response, even when it isn't clear what the problem is.

>The reliably blockheaded media response didn't help either. "60 Minutes" devoted a whole hour to a broadcast about screen violence and its impact on the young. The show was heavily promoted with the tease: "Are video games turning your kids into killers?" The already embattled loners were besieged.

>"This is not a rational world. Can anybody help?" asked Jamie, head of an intense Dungeons and Dragons club, whose private school guidance counselor gave him a choice: Give up the game or face counseling, possibly suspension. Suzanne, who e-mailed me, was told to go home and leave her black ankle-length raincoat there.

>On the Web, kids flocked to talk to each other. On Star Wars and X-Files mailing lists and Websites and on AOL chat rooms and ICQ message boards, teenagers traded countless stories about being harassed, beaten, ostracized and ridiculed by teachers, students and administrators for dressing and thinking differently. 

The biggest change was that schools started identifying bullied kids, and rather than help them, the teachers and administrators effectively just joined in on the bullying themselves. 

A tradition many continue with great zeal.

I went to Green Mountain High School in Lakewood Colorado. We considered ourselves to be Columbines sister school. The administration did everything that has been mentioned here so far; banning trenchcoats, backpacks, etc. But they also started doing weekly locker searches, and began placing police at every entrance with metal detectors.

My wife did go to columbine, and she was there for the shooting. It was so much worse there. Not only did the kids all have trauma from the incident, but when they all started coming back, all these draconian rules started getting implemented.

I remember we got a lot of bomb threats called in after columbine and they would escort us to the football field. There were hundreds of kids all sitting on the bleachers for like the 5th time and a kid said “what if they put the bomb under the bleachers before they call in the threat then we would be sitting ducks. We got bussed to the old racetrack for the next bomb threat lol.

Three Seniors in the school when I was a sophomore had a joke that I had a kill list because of the movie Billy Madison and a back and forth thing that I had with them. I wouldn’t call them bullies, they were just being jerks at the time and I’m an easy target because I’m on the spectrum. The worst it ever got was the time John slapped my books out of my hand (he did this half assedly) and said to me “how about now, boy, am I at the top of your list now?” and I would say back, “Nah, sorry, John, still not even on the list. Try harder tomorrow and maybe we can get you on there…” And he would laugh. Most often, it was just low grade insults, nothing with any teeth, and I could tell. In previous schools, they spit on me. So with these guys I could detect that they didn’t like me, but weren’t sure why.

But then Columbine happened. The day after, I was called into the office and told that I was being arrested by the local sheriff’s department for terroristic threat and that I would be in ISS until they moved me to the Alternative Education Program in downtown Waco.

I did nothing to deserve this. I was a weirdo, still am, but never threatened anyone. I would talk shit to these three guys, and they would do it back, but it never escalated beyond that. We all just kind of understood that they picked on me and I fought back a little, but it was never a war. It was never something that I hated their guts for and it was nothing new to me, being casually singled out.

So an investigator from the WPD came in and guess who found out and went and told that investigator the truth about Billy Madison and the list that didn’t exist?

If those same three guys never came forward, I would have spent the rest of my high school years in a small room, being punished for something I never did. But they did.

So the investigator got the school to let me back into gen pop and I was treated pretty well afterwards, despite that apparently they thought I was going to be the next school shooter right after Columbine.

But the school was prepared to seal me away for the rest of my school years like some deranged freak and I was only 16. I wasn’t obsessed with revenge. I was obsessed with the X-Men.

And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids…

Brandon, Chris, and Dan; best frienemies a young person could ever hope for. I’ll never forget your integrity beyond what could have been punishment for you for coming forward. But you did it so I wouldn’t rot my youth out. You knew it could have gotten you in trouble, but you came forward anyways, for a freak.

I hope whoever you guys are, your wallets are fat, your children are happy, and your hairlines stay right where they belong.

Cheers.

I was a senior. I remember a bike cop zipping up and down the hallways riding inside. And I remember canine officers on campus sniffing lockers. That went on for about two weeks and then as graduation was literally around the corner, it all seemed to go back to normal. No rule changes that I knew of.

Banned trench coats. I’m sure there were more but I can’t remember them.

Edit: I also remember anyone who was considered even slightly “odd” or a loner or whatever was definitely going to “do a Columbine.”