Parents sue state for bullied girl’s suicide
Straits times 080207

School violence has become one of the major problems many countries are facing. However, unlike other problems, no solution was being brought forward. Firstly, it may be due to the lack of concern or else, the root to the problem has not yet been discovered. Perhaps the main problem may lie in the educational system or our degrading environment we live in each day. School violence may seem minor to viewers, but not for the victims themselves. I suggest that her parents should react more objectively by discussing this problem with the state rather than to sue them. After all, it is not an effective solution since the problem will still remain standing. In addition, I totally disagree with respect to Japan’s Prime Minister’s decision to suspend all bullies from school in order to lower the rate of school violence. Could one just imagine if such a regulation is put to practice? Students who detest school will go all out to become bullies in order to quit school. Even then, Bullies will still have the chance to bully others outside school. Also, they will possess higher chances of becoming convicts in the future as they are being stripped of their opportunity to turn over a new leaf at the early stages. In my opinion, the prime minister is not addressing the problem at all. Rather, he is trying to satisfy his people through carrying out this hasty decision which will only superficially “solve” the problem.