I have been following with mild horror the Goose Creek High School story. I saw the video on TV, cops with guns drawn, at the ready, tensely surveying and hollering at frightened and confused students. Now in the Nov. 16 Greenville News, I read about the support for the cops and principal. What is the lesson to be gained from this? What are we trying to teach? We are teaching our children that they must put up with behavior that we as adults would not want to put up with ourselves. Would we tolerate the same pre-emptive strike in the hallways of our workplace because our boss suspected some were using drugs? We are teaching, "The end justifies the means."

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