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...past seven years, started out treating halfway-house criminals but works today with wealthy businessmen, the homeless and children as young as eight. Even the six-year-old in Flint, Mich., who killed his classmate in February had reportedly been scheduled to undergo anger therapy. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who gunned down 13 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., had taken anger-management classes a year earlier for stealing from...
Your articles on the Columbine tapes of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold should be required reading for every parent and teacher in America. KAREN WILSON Greensboro...
Perhaps the principal at Columbine was naive in believing that everything at his school was running smoothly. The reports about how some Columbine students flicked catsup packets or tossed bottles at these kids in the cafeteria, and how others teased Harris and Klebold, show there was a distinct lack of acceptance of people for who they are. It's possible that if the individuality of Harris and Klebold had been channeled in the right direction, none of this would have happened. The school principal needs to take another long, hard look at what is going on beneath the surface...
While I believe what Harris and Klebold did was wrong, one can see how difficult life was for them. I found it interesting that your cover on the April massacre called the boys "The Monsters Next Door." In light of the tapes, in which the boys apologized to their families, these young men were not totally merciless or without feeling and regret. MICHAEL MCMANUS, age 17 Manchester, England...
...Being friendly. Playing politely with children of other ages, genders, etc. I'm lucky that my years in public school didn't change me, but the other students certainly tried to do so. If they had succeeded--who knows? Maybe I would have gone the way of Harris and Klebold. The student abusers are trying to cover up their actions and shift the blame to someone else. That makes them very nearly as bad as the horrible young Columbine killers. SPENCER M. LEASE Medford, Mass...