Received a Disturbing note

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you contacting the school? It happened outside of school at your personal residence. I'd ask the girls' parents if they know about it and may ask the police how to proceed, but schools aren't responsible for everything relating to our children.

Harassment/threats that happen outside of school can still be handled inside of school if it has and impact on the student's performance/behavior.

We had middle school students suspended a couple years ago for twitter threats/bullying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you contacting the school? It happened outside of school at your personal residence. I'd ask the girls' parents if they know about it and may ask the police how to proceed, but schools aren't responsible for everything relating to our children.

Harassment/threats that happen outside of school can still be handled inside of school if it has and impact on the student's performance/behavior.

We had middle school students suspended a couple years ago for twitter threats/bullying.

This. Maybe not the principal, but at least the school counselor, who may know something you don't know.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm an administrator at a school and I think you should let the principal know. This may be a harmless prank (and most likely is) but the school will be able to handle it and should know if there is animosity among some students. Also, this may not be the first time this child has done something like this, so it's important to loop in the school.

Please don't listen to the others who are saying ignore it- it could be part of a more serious pattern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm an administrator at a school and I think you should let the principal know. This may be a harmless prank (and most likely is) but the school will be able to handle it and should know if there is animosity among some students. Also, this may not be the first time this child has done something like this, so it's important to loop in the school.

Please don't listen to the others who are saying ignore it- it could be part of a more serious pattern.

OP's first grader THINKS he knows who did it. For crying out loud, now you want to go on a witch hunt! Yeah. When the principal calls your house, I'm sure you'll be delighted the opinion of a first grader was taken that it was part of a more serious pattern.

[Anonymous]

It is probably a harmless prank but nonetheless, you would never forgive yourself if something more serious happened and you did nothing about it.

At least talk to the neighbors and the school so that everyone is aware of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A note threatening to kill my son? I would call the police. I do not care if kids did it. Let the police talk to them so they understand the seriousness of what they did.

You are a nut.

Nut 2 here: call the police or go pay a visit next door with a baseball bat... I think the former is within the law and won't get you in trouble.

I would have called the police immediately. The kid could be a real weirdo with a gun in his home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm an administrator at a school and I think you should let the principal know. This may be a harmless prank (and most likely is) but the school will be able to handle it and should know if there is animosity among some students. Also, this may not be the first time this child has done something like this, so it's important to loop in the school.

Please don't listen to the others who are saying ignore it- it could be part of a more serious pattern.

OP's first grader THINKS he knows who did it. For crying out loud, now you want to go on a witch hunt! Yeah. When the principal calls your house, I'm sure you'll be delighted the opinion of a first grader was taken that it was part of a more serious pattern.

There's no witch hunt, you cretin, in simply informing the school and letting them know what you know.

What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm an administrator at a school and I think you should let the principal know. This may be a harmless prank (and most likely is) but the school will be able to handle it and should know if there is animosity among some students. Also, this may not be the first time this child has done something like this, so it's important to loop in the school.

Please don't listen to the others who are saying ignore it- it could be part of a more serious pattern.

OP's first grader THINKS he knows who did it. For crying out loud, now you want to go on a witch hunt! Yeah. When the principal calls your house, I'm sure you'll be delighted the opinion of a first grader was taken that it was part of a more serious pattern.

There's no witch hunt, you cretin, in simply informing the school and letting them know what you know.

What is wrong with you?

Yes, by all means. Call the school and tell them you found a note on construction paper on your porch. Have them look out for possible suspects. Yes, great idea. It could be part of a very serious pattern of construction paper crime.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm an administrator at a school and I think you should let the principal know. This may be a harmless prank (and most likely is) but the school will be able to handle it and should know if there is animosity among some students. Also, this may not be the first time this child has done something like this, so it's important to loop in the school.

Please don't listen to the others who are saying ignore it- it could be part of a more serious pattern.

I mean, it seems like an overreaction to me, but if it helps you sleep at night, go for it. Some neighborhood kids wrote in chalk outside our house "DS is RED HOT! I love DS!" I guess it could be part of a more serious pattern of sexual harassment, but probably not.

[Anonymous]

I would notify the police and the school. It very well may be nothing, but language like that needs to be taken seriously. If this turns out to only be a learning opportunity, take it and run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A note threatening to kill my son? I would call the police. I do not care if kids did it. Let the police talk to them so they understand the seriousness of what they did.

You are a nut.

Lol you obviously don't love your kids as much as PP. Police is the right answer. Sociopath.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:First of all op, there should have been a trigger warning for this thread.

But to answer your question, I'd lol, show the note to dh and then I'd put it in the box of things I'm saving for my son for when he's an adult. I'm sure he'd get a kick out of it when he's a grown up. I might include a note with my reaction to discovering the note if I had anything to say about it.

Why should there be a trigger warning? Just curious. I'm all for them but I don't see the context here.

People can have very traumatizing memories of bullshit notes second grade boys sent them with dog faces and such

In other words...PP was being sarcastic, feeding into OP's drama.

I was being sarcastic too. Clearly nobody has traumatizing memories of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A note threatening to kill my son? I would call the police. I do not care if kids did it. Let the police talk to them so they understand the seriousness of what they did.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think kids use the word kill freely without really knowing the seriousness of it. Get Ring doorbell and see if he comes back.

call the police, send this little shit a serious message so he doesn't do it to other children.

[Anonymous]

Ok OP, clearly a polarizing issue.

What did you do? What happened?