Larry King was a bully.
He was harassing other students, taunting them with unwanted sexual advances.
His father should have been placed on trial, along with the administration at the school, which chose to play political correctness rather that demand moral excellence from its students and parents.
Brandon McInerney did a terrible thing. Shooting a student twice, once in the back of the head, is beyond reprehensible.
He received 21 years in prison for his crime.
Yet there is another criminal, a greater enterprise that has forced students to endure all kinds of abuse and neglect.
That would be the system of compulsory schooling. Students are forced to attend a school in the nearest zip code, whether the facility provides a quality education or not. Students must endure harassment of all kinds from students, teachers, and even administrators, many of whom are obsessed with status, salary, or standardized test scores in some way shape, or form.
When a student tries to get help, administrators, overcome with radical notions of fairness and equality, do nothing for fear of alienating the bullies or the parents, who can file lawsuits or scream at school boards for redress of their own grievances.
The school system failed Larry King and Brandon McInerney. They both deserved an education with rigorous moral standards, an education that teachers the entire person fundamental beliefs and values, not just content to teach students rudimentary facts which have nothing to do with real life.
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