"Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech student who graduated with Cho [Seung-Hui] from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., in 2003, recalled that Cho almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.Damn, can kids be cruel!
Once, in an English class, the teacher had the students read aloud and, when it was Cho’s turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled in an interview with The Associated Press.
Finally, after the teacher threatened to give him a failing grade for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded “like he had something in his mouth,” Davids said.
“As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, ‘Go back to China,’” Davids said.
Cho Seung-Hui, a senior majoring in English at Virginia Tech University, wantonly and viciously murdered 32 other fellow students and faculty on Monday of this week.
How could anyone be so cruel?
How could anyone be capable of such rage and others not know it could possibly happen?
A lot of kids go through middle school and high school being bullied and ridiculed and don't turn into mass murderers.
Obviously, Cho Seung-Hui was much different than the vast, vast majority of those who have been tormented and shunned as kids.
We will never know if Cho Seung-Hui would have turned out differently if he had not been treated the way he was in high school. He's so different...he was so volatile... chances are he'd have done something tragic at some point in his life anyway.
But then, it would have been worth a try. Someone, at some point, should have done more to help.
Kids are not supposed to be that shy.
The being singled-out and threatened by the teacher followed with the laughing and pointing and yelling from his classmates seems like something out of 'Carrie', or maybe even, 'Bowling for Columbine'.
Regardless, society should know better, because we've been here before....
