I Hate My Job

PDJ

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A 12 year old girl in my tutor group was raped last week. The suspects were addicts so she also has to take AIDS tests. The poor, poor girl. Death is too good for some people.
 
If they are only suspects and haven't been convicted yet, you already have them down for the death penalty.

God help the accused when you are on jury duty. :(
 
But it has nothing to do with your job, PDJ. Would you hate your job if you ran your own company and one of your employees was raped?
 
It's nothing to do with your job, Pee, as DO says. Your job's fine and the kids you teach are fine - even if some of them sometimes have to try hard to be otherwise. The fact that the rapists are addicts doesn't mitigate their crime, though, and shouldn't be relevant. They were just bad people. I do hope that the youngster is well supported at home and that she also has good friends to help her recover from her terrible experience.
 
Why? Doesn't he read papers or watch the news? He's in a job where some of the most vulnerable in society congregate in vast numbers. I had a classmate die of leukaemia at 10, another one killed horse-riding when she was 17 and I was 13, and another kid I didn't know dragged to death by her pony, aged 12. I know the teachers were terribly upset by these incidents, but I don't think they wanted to give up their jobs because of such tragedies. Kids die from childhood illnesses and accidents, and they're vulnerable to attack from wrongdoers, too, so it's surely only a matter of time before some of the wicked things done to kids - getting stabbed, shot, abducted, raped, beaten up at home, to name but a few of the possibilities - catch up with one's school.
 
I know it is nothing to do with my job per se but it just depresses me when you personally come into contact with situations like this. Phil, I wasn't necessarily talking about the suspects; I was talking about the perps, whoever they may be.
 
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