In reading some online news reports today, this really stood out at me:

"I know we're talking about a youngster, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings," she said. "There was something mean about this boy. It was the meanness - I've taught troubled youngsters and crazy people - it was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak."

Giovanni said her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior, including taking pictures of them with his cell phone, that some stopped coming to class and she had security check on her room. She eventually had him taken out of her class, saying she would quit if he wasn't removed.

Lucinda Roy, a co-director of creative writing at Virginia Tech, said she tutored Cho after that.

This along with disciplinary hearings for stalking in 2005, statements that he sat in classes with his hat down low and listening to music instead of participating makes me wonder what on earth he was still doing at this university. Incidents like this should have had his butt off that campus, never to return years ago.

I figure if I was scaring the Professor with my work and attitude I would not be "sent to counseling and offered tutoring services." I'd no longer be a student at the University. This just screams of the "every student must succeed" and we must "try to understand and meet student needs" mantras that are rampant in the education industry today.

This is not to say that kicking him out of VT years or semesters ago would have prevented such an incident, He probably would have snapped in a Shopping Mall or something.