[tomwed]

High School guidance counselors are there to keep an eye on the children. The average caseload is 500 students to 1 counselor. The paperwork not the heart to heart talk takes up most of their time. I think we need more specialists who are skilled in sorting out the maladjusted and seeing how they could helped. Maybe a 24 hour HS hotline where an anonymous conversation with someone who knows their friend needs help can be developed. Maybe every student has to be a big brother and has to be a big sister until it becomes just part of being in school.

Some kids are attracted to terrorist websites just to belong to some group that is paying attention. I don't know what is being advertised on the internet that the kids are reading.

I have worked with kids that are bullied. You may think the bullied would take positive action and go after the bully like Tyson did when he got tougher. But I have seen more often then not the bullied individual is frequently much larger in their senior year and the payback takes place with the freshman. So the cycle repeats itself.