From my experience in classrooms, yes, that is exactly what is happening. How many meetings have you sat in on?? |
| IMHO, pitchforking the parents who disagree and/or have been at the receiving end of classroom violence is NOT the answer, getting your child the help he so desperately needs IS the answer. If you debate that, then that is on you, not the rest of the classroom. |
You are trying to debate the topic, and are looking for plausible deniability - the usual schtick. Look it up. |
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So many PPs chiming seem to be hiding something, possibly something terrible....... |
Then my face should be deformed because I am mentally ill, too - and it’s not just depression or anxiety. It’s a type of psychosis. I’m also a physician who has worked tirelessly to care for covid patients the past 1.5 years while also managing my own family’s adjustment to the pandemic. Yeah, I take my meds, but I’m still mentally ill. My boss sure doesn’t worry about my facial structure. What this kid did is indefensible. So are your comments about facial structure and mental illness. |
The traditional rules of debate put the burden of proof on the person making the claim. If you tell someone to “go look it up”, you have lost the debate. And ps - the only facial anomaly he has, associated with fetal alcohol syndrome, is wide set eyes. You need much more than that to attempt to make an internet diagnosis. |
Do you research on FAS before you start spouting crap about it. He actually has almost none of the FAS facial markers - no smooth philtrum (he is very well defined), his upper lip is not thin, the eye size (not distance but actual size) is quite normal. FAS facial features only occur during the first trimester. The vast majority of kids with FAS do not have the facial markers. |
I’m really starting to think the poster(s) so into his “facial anomalies” have serious problems of their own. |
Yes, it does, but based on this picture, the kid does not have the ones related to the eyes, the nose and the upper lip. I can't see the ears (having big ears is not it). |
The “creeps” at Columbine who were ostracized and bullied by their classmates? Gee, you think there *might* be something to this whole bullying thing?
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Additionally, in my experience, the schools are not allowed to tell you that they suspect a true mental illness or problem. When my son was having learning difficulties which resulted in a severe ADHD diagnosis (which took several years and thousands of dollars to diagnose for those who think you can just "get help"), I had to initiate the meeting with the school regarding dropping grades. As I sat in the meeting, I had to push and was told explicitly that they could not tell me that they thought there was an issue. It wasn't until I was in the parking lot did his teacher whisper in my ear to get him evaluated, but please don't tell anyone she said that. I don't doubt for a second that the meeting with the school was 15 minutes of "we are concerned" with absolutely no resources provided. The kid was allowed right back into the classroom with a gun in his backpack. If we are going to place any blame on the child, we should also be casting significant blame on the school administrators for not immediately providing support and resources. |
Pretty much. There were playing around with explosives. He was playing around with Molotov cocktails. They had home videos. He had weird social media videos with his gun. From their journals, Harris and Klebold had seemed to begin planning the attack a year prior. Throughout the next year, Harris and Klebold meticulously built explosives and gathered an arsenal of weapons. Harris and Klebold left behind several journal writings and home videos, foreshadowing the massacre and explaining their actions, with what they hoped to achieve. |
| There you go - parents charged with involuntary manslaughter. |