:40:03
but the teachers and counsellors
and principals
:40:06
don't help things.
They scare you into conforming
:40:10
and doing good in school by
saying: "If you're a loser now,
:40:13
you're gonna be a loser
forever."
:40:15
So that with Eric and Dylan,
people called them "fag."
:40:17
They're like, "You know what?
:40:19
If I'm a fag,
now I'm a fag forever."
:40:21
And you wish someone just
could've grabbed them and gone,
:40:24
"Dude, high school's
not the end of...
:40:26
A year, a year and a half,
was it? I don't even know.
:40:29
You just move out--
- No, no, they were two weeks
:40:32
away from graduation.
- Yeah, you're done.
:40:35
It's amazing how fast you lose
touch with all those people.
:40:37
They just beat it in your head
as early as sixth grade:
:40:40
"Don't fuck up.
'Cause if you do,
:40:42
you're gonna die poor
and lonely.
:40:44
You don't want to do that."
You're, like, "Fuck,
:40:46
whatever I am now,
I'm that forever." Of course,
:40:48
it's completely opposite.
All the dorks in high school
:40:51
go on to do great things
and all the really cool guys
:40:53
are all living back in
Littleton as insurance agents.
:40:56
Almost person to person,
it's completely that way.
:40:59
If somebody
could've told them that,
:41:02
maybe they would've
have done it, but...
:41:04
- I guess we'll never know
why they did it,
:41:06
but one thing adults
should never forget:
:41:08
It still sucks
being a teenager.
:41:11
And it really sucks
going to school.
:41:13
- What's your view
on high school?
:41:15
- Uh, I love it.
:41:16
Columbine Student Video
:41:18
Uh, I learn, I get picked on
by bastards who hate me,
:41:21
and the principal's a dick.
:41:24
- All right.
What causes school violence?
:41:26
- Uh... him.
:41:28
- Him?
- Yeah.
:41:32
- Yes, and after Columbine,
it really sucked
:41:35
being a student in America.
:41:36
[ TV news ]:
Since last spring's shooting,
:41:38
at Columbine High,
schools nationwide
:41:41
have extended
zero-tolerance policies,
:41:43
suspending and expelling
students for all kinds
:41:46
of behaviour considered unruly,
:41:49
or warning signs
of violence to come.
:41:51
This second-grader in Illinois
was suspended for 10 days
:41:54
for bringing a nail clipper
to class
:41:56
"That's a weapon,"
his school said.
:41:58
- An elementary school
suspended a first-grader