2000sep09. FBI profiling for “troubled” school children.
The report listed more than three dozen warning signals, which include recurrent themes of destruction or violence in a student’s writing or artwork, students who nursed resentment over real or perceived injustices, those fascinated with violent entertainment, and families that kept weapons in the home. The report also pointed to students who show hopelessness, despair, hatred, isolation, loneliness, nihilism or an “end-of-the-world” philosophy. The report also focused on students who are easily angered, who are in a failed love relationship, who have an attitude of superiority, who are rigid and opinionated, who show an unusual interest in sensational violence, have poor coping skills, show signs of depression, abuse drugs or alcohol, express inappropriate humor, and have no limits or monitoring of television and Internet use.Christ. So who’s not on this list? The principal’s kid? Watch your backs, kids, because they’re watching you ...