Ridgecroft Honors Slain Virginia Tech Students, Staff

by Cal Bryant - April 20th, 2007 - Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald

AHOSKIE - Today, we all are Virginia Tech.

In front of a sea of young faces, many adorned in maroon and orange sweatshirts, middle and upper Ridgecroft School students gathered Friday morning to pay tribute to those who died during Monday’s shooting rampage at Virginia Tech.

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Ridgecroft Headmaster Elton . . Winslow drove home his point as he concluded the ceremony by saying, “The bullying has to stop. It’s hurtful. If anything good comes out of this, maybe the bullying will stop.”

Elton Winslow is giving good advice. Of all the people who are looking for someone to blame, this is the best and most rational advice I have heard. The man who killed so many at Virginia Tech was reported to have been odd and mentally unstable, but no one who has seen the vicious way some people are treated in schools today has any doubt that if he had run into a few more Christians in his life, true Christians, these people may not have died. No one is helped by the bullying that goes on in many of our institutions of learning today. Christian kindness would have helped.

That bullying is certainly a contributing factor in all of the many cases of increased violence that occur in our modern society. It is a failure that can be fixed by other techniques if our courts would allow it. However it is questionable that our courts will help. Several schools have recently been sued and lost when they took any actions to get the victims of bullying help.

The courts insist that the schools must honor the privacy rights of the victims and thus continue to isolate them from any form of human concern. This is one more example of the evil practices of our current court system. Since the courts created the situation by refusing to allow discipline that would end the bullying, you would think they would allow the victims to get help.

They create a problem by sabotaging discipline in the classrooms and hallways of our schools and then aggravate the problem by stopping any effective attempts to help after the fact. Since it is the courts who are leading the efforts to stomp out Christianity in our schools too you have to wonder about the motives of our judges?