I shouldn't laugh. Because this is wrong.

[conuly]

But reading about staff-condoned cage fights at a Texas high school... damn it, it's kinda amusing!

And wrong. Very wrong.

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[ascian.livejournal.com]

I can see the funny, because it makes me picture the Wolverine cage match from X-Men in a scholastic setting, but yeah, it's also heartbreaking.

I know from experience that it's very easy for kids who are frequently targeted for violence by other students to be dubbed 'troublemakers' and 'violent'. The thought that such kids, falsely-labeled because of desperate attempts at self-defense, might be put in a cage to fight like a dog against the aggressors they should be protected from... it's sickening.

[conuly]

You're right, of course.

[ascian.livejournal.com]

I can see the funny, because it makes me picture the Wolverine cage match from X-Men in a scholastic setting, but yeah, it's also heartbreaking.

I know from experience that it's very easy for kids who are frequently targeted for violence by other students to be dubbed 'troublemakers' and 'violent'. The thought that such kids, falsely-labeled because of desperate attempts at self-defense, might be put in a cage to fight like a dog against the aggressors they should be protected from... it's sickening.

[conuly]

You're right, of course.