Word: outcastes
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...teenager growing up in Arkansas, I stored my 12-gauge shotgun under my bed. I took it out when I went with Dad to shoot clay pigeons. That wasn't back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...
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...doesn't. In her mother's broken-down house in the mean streets of Umlazi township, though, Laetitia's mother hovers over her son, nursing him, protecting him, resolutely denying he has anything but TB, though his sister claims the sure symptoms of AIDS mark him. Laetitia is the outcast, first from her family, then from her society...
DeGuzman apparently idolized Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, calling the Columbine gunmen "the only thing that's real." But unlike them, DeGuzman was no outcast. "He worked so well with everybody," says his yearbook adviser Paul Ender. The weapons, friends say, are simply part of DeGuzman's fantasy. Attorney Craig T. Wormley says his client "has merely an innocent fascination with some of the items that were seized." But the charges of weapons possession and intent to injure may send him to prison for 106 years. He has pleaded not guilty...
...possible that all these years we've been blaming the wrong kids for stealing our milk money. The image of the schoolyard bully as a disaffected social outcast or a hulking denizen of shop class is a familiar one and a staple of teenage lore. But as researchers and teachers grow increasingly sensitive to the issue of school violence, they are studying bullying more closely and finding that the stereotypes are often misleading...