Hats off to law enforcement for averting a mass shooting at Wooten

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a terrible tragedy that this child is experiencing. I'm so grateful that it was caught before any action actually occurred. I'm equally grateful that it is shinning a light on the crappy mental health care system we have.

It sounds like these parents "did something". They sought help, over and over again. Yet nothing seemed to work. These are the parents who turn to last resort program like Wilderness Therapy if they can afford it. In the Kids with SN forum, there are always posts about how could you send your child to XYZ program. At a certain point, you are out of options. You are now just trying to save your kids life. And these options are only available if you have money.

Many long term treatment facilities will only take a child if the child qualifies for medicaid or the school system is paying for it. If you have private insurance, it's the insurance company (the payor) who determines how long you are in the facility; not the medical staff at the facility. A reputable facility wants positive outcomes and that takes time. If they have to discharge before a patient is ready due to lack of payment, then they won't have the good outcomes. The good places need to know that they will get paid and be comfortable that they will be paid as long as the person needs medical treatment.

Getting long term residential placement via an IEP take a good lawyer which takes money. Getting medicaid means your family doesn't have a lot of money and you don't have private insurance. Some states have the Katie Becket waiver, but in Maryland, that waitlist is about 12 yrs long.

Its awful but the "good" therapeutic treatment occurs within the prison systems. My kid has explosive behaviors and I won't even consider a therapist that has not worked in a juvenile detention facility---run of the mill community therapists just don't get it.

I hope the child finally gets the help they need and the communities can begin to understand that some parents are doing everything that they can and it's still not enough. They are blocked by the system.

yep. a 'who cares' attitude. sad.

[Anonymous]

I agree, OP!

It's made the national news here and is currently on BBC News online.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68858405

Hope my parents in Europe don't see it - they would FREAK OUT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has had a few psychiatrist inpatient admissions. Seems the manifesto is parts of his real life mixed in with fiction.

There was more than just the manifesto/memoir/work of fiction. There were Google searches and the purchase of a BB gun.

What’s that novel they said he was looking at?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a sad story about our crappy mental health care for teenagers. Hospitalized briefly in 2022, released without any improvement, and put into an isolating "remote learning program" because he is too mentally ill to attend school, which likely made his isolation and mental health even worse.

Also, the dad should be charged with something. He had a gun in a house with a teen who had already been hospitalized for threatening to shoot up a school or kill himself? Get rid of the damn gun.

Given bullying seems to have been a contributing factor, in-person school might not have prevented this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree, OP!

It's made the national news here and is currently on BBC News online.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68858405

Hope my parents in Europe don't see it - they would FREAK OUT!

Why would your parents freak out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised this isn't on here, but it has gotten national media attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-teenager-accused-plotting-school-shooting-129-page-document-rcna148516

So scary to think we could have a mass shooting right here at home!

This conclusively proves the CEO program works fine and that the SRO program with all its negatives isn't needed.

+100

+1000

Disaster averted without any students being racially profiled and harassed by cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised this isn't on here, but it has gotten national media attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-teenager-accused-plotting-school-shooting-129-page-document-rcna148516

So scary to think we could have a mass shooting right here at home!

This conclusively proves the CEO program works fine and that the SRO program with all its negatives isn't needed.

+100

+1000

Disaster averted without any students being racially profiled and harassed by cops.

I’m convinced you’re the same person over… and over…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised this isn't on here, but it has gotten national media attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-teenager-accused-plotting-school-shooting-129-page-document-rcna148516

So scary to think we could have a mass shooting right here at home!

This conclusively proves the CEO program works fine and that the SRO program with all its negatives isn't needed.

+100

+1000

Disaster averted without any students being racially profiled and harassed by cops.

I’m convinced you’re the same person over… and over…

Or more likely the vast majority of people disagree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised this isn't on here, but it has gotten national media attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-teenager-accused-plotting-school-shooting-129-page-document-rcna148516

So scary to think we could have a mass shooting right here at home!

This conclusively proves the CEO program works fine and that the SRO program with all its negatives isn't needed.

+100

+1000

Disaster averted without any students being racially profiled and harassed by cops.

I’m convinced you’re the same person over… and over…

Or more likely the vast majority of people disagree with you.

In all your time posting your anti-police stance on DCUM, have you ever been supported by someone else?

Because it sure seems to be you against most of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surprised this isn't on here, but it has gotten national media attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-teenager-accused-plotting-school-shooting-129-page-document-rcna148516

So scary to think we could have a mass shooting right here at home!

Please learn to spell wootton! Its not that hard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised this isn't on here, but it has gotten national media attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-teenager-accused-plotting-school-shooting-129-page-document-rcna148516

So scary to think we could have a mass shooting right here at home!

Please learn to spell wootton! Its not that hard

It’s

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Woo! They got a Ton of problems there. No cap

[Anonymous]

It's so much more than the "work of fiction":
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:us:1bf125dc-5678-4d21-87c0-89cc27ca4654?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

[Anonymous]

You may give law enforcement a little too much credit. Other people were involved as well. The police did what they had to do, with little creativity so far, from my perspective.