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.
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Date: 2009-03-23 05:43 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-03-23 05:52 pm (UTC)