Critiquing "The Monster That Is High School"

1. popular high school cliques-----embracing jocks and putting them in the starlight-----jocks making fun of outcasts-----outcasts are emotionally distressed-----outcasts defend themselves from insults-----outcasts lack of care-----Littleton massacre.
Daeha’s is somewhat persuasive in his argument.

2. Daeha Ko is very offended and upset that Klebold and Harris are called “the monsters next door”. I see Ko as being affected by the insults in the same way as Klebold and Harris. He feels connected with those two because he feels they have went through and lot of the same things. I don’t believe it creates sympathy for social outcasts in high school culture, but it does reveal some hidden emotional feelings that they have.

3. Daeha says that these shootings are contributed by the support and highlights of jock activities and the neglect of others. He also says that this was revenge of the nerds, “because teasing isn’t fun and games anymore.” Ko refutes that these shooting were caused by “monsters”, because these kids were made fun of continuously and finally got tired of it. He shows how he and others like him are insulted and his feelings and actions toward it.
I believe Daeha’s argument is a valuable contribution to the controversy because it gives a first person example of how these kids were treated, and the emotional distress they were probably feeling.

4. Kairos helps explain this argument because Ko writes this paper right after the Columbine incident, and is upset at the blame getting solely put on the two kids.
I think this argument gains some impact after the kairotic moment because it gives people time to think about what actually caused this terrible incident, rather than quickly finding someone to blame.