Girl writes story about killing teacher

[brandon184]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/10...ary/index.html

Let's pull everything back to square one...... Why write a story about killing your teacher? Common sense dictates that no good could ever come of that.

[originel]

Personally i think this is ludacris.

She didn't write a story about wanting to kill her teacher...she wrote a story about a girl dreaming that she did, i see a huge difference. It's possible that the girl dreamed it happened, and woke up scared and unnerved from it, like a nightmare. we don't know the context of the story. It's all in context.

Also there is the fact that she wrote this on her own time for herself...if this had been for an assignment then things might be differently, but that's not the case here. personally i feel that this starts to increase on freedom of thought. when the schools/govt take away the right to think for ourselves then we might as well be 1984.

Sometimes the best way to show how wrong/bad something is is simply to just show it (for example the movie requiem for a dream...a single viewing of that movie is MUCH more effective than the years of DARE and other anti-drug programs my grade schools had, yet it is about someone who does drugs).

[Warthog]

Common sense dictates that no good could ever come of that.

And in this case, common sense doesn't dictate. How sad. *sniff*

Warthog

[Mike]

I think we can all agree that it shouldn't have been written. The only thing I can find against her is:

Rachel wrote the story in her personal journal and was showing it to a classmate. Her art teacher noticed, confiscated it and turned it over to school officials the next day.

She should have shown her friend later.

[M_Six]

Common sense dictates that no good could ever come of that.

I disagree. Many bestsellers have been about murder. And this was a personal journal that some snooping teacher saw and confiscated (illegally, IMO). This is a ridiculous interpretation of a rule.

[brandon184]

Well, if she gets published - I say, let it slide.

You have to draw a line somewhere... It'd be completely inappropriate (if not illegal) for me to write a story about me brutally slaughtering my neighbours and co-workers.

But we also don't know how much detail her story contained... Put yourself in the teacher's shoes, if it was implied that it was THAT teacher being killed.

[Warthog]

confiscated (illegally, IMO)

It is wrong or illegal? There is a difference.

My teachers back in HS could've confiscated whatever written stuff I had as long as they had a reason.

[pickel]

If I remember , this is still a FREE country and she's entitled to write about anything she pleases. The teacher, if it been "17" or a comic book just would have taken it, and after class given her a talking to and returned the book. His curiousity, which I feel, was the whole problem here got this whole senerio out of proportion. Maybe he'll be in the next book.

[M_Six]

It is wrong or illegal? There is a difference.

OK, maybe not illegal, but wrong at least.

[Mike]

We've gotten way too jumpy over the years. If someone from my dad's generation wrote something like this, everyone would just laught it off.

It wasn't taken illegally per say. She was showing it to a friend in class. She could/should have just waited until after class.