On 19/06/2005, at 1:45 AM, Herman Robak wrote:
Sorry, Herman, I should have said. These were older boys, and sadly,
it got worse and worse as time went on.
If the school let that go on, I find it really disturbing.
(Little of that children and adolecents do disturb me. Call me
cynic...)
[Me too. I taught teenagers for many years, and got to the stage that
iron garbage bins crashing through the windows, or being attacked in
my own classroom didn't disturb me at all. I think it's some kind of
shock adaptation. ;) ]
It is a disturbing thing that there are still places where this sort
of behaviour is tolerated, and that any number of people want to
behave in that way. I can't go into details here, since it's her
private life and the details are really dreadful, but it did get
progressively worse, and it's taken her years to get over it.
I wish I could say it was unusual, but the reason I mentioned it here
was to show how usual it is: we grow up with this sort of thing, it's
always present in our lives. It shouldn't be.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc
