Why was the most recent tweet on fcps posted for?

[Anonymous]

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Not everyone in the world is on Twitter, so please tell us what it said. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not everyone in the world is on Twitter, so please tell us what it said. Thanks.

New poster. Can't believe you needed to tell her that.

[Anonymous]

NP: Google "fcps twitter", it pops up as the first link. It's an image, so it would be a pain to type it all up. It talks about how the county takes social media threats of self harm seriously.

[Anonymous]

It is because of a kid @AllyLovo who threated to kill herself if schools weren't closed.

[Anonymous]

Looks like someone posted something inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Ally wrote this when they two hour delayed, "Closed FCPS or I'm hanging my self. No Joke"

Thats Why

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ally wrote this when they two hour delayed, "Closed FCPS or I'm hanging my self. No Joke"

Thats Why

What action will be taken against her

[Anonymous]

probably none. The more I see the more I realize we are totally failing our teens with too much access to social media. They just cannot handle it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:probably none. The more I see the more I realize we are totally failing our teens with too much access to social media. They just cannot handle it.

+1

Sadly, we can never be too sure if a child is serious or not. So it can't go ignored.

[Anonymous]

Here’s a link to the FCPS response. Agree that this needs to be taken seriously and jokes about killing yourself should not be tolerant. But threatening to call the police seems like it would discourage kids who really need help.

[Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/fcpsnews/status/961323532033708034

Sorry! Link

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a link to the FCPS response. Agree that this needs to be taken seriously and jokes about killing yourself should not be tolerant. But threatening to call the police seems like it would discourage kids who really need help.

Well, what do you think fcps shoukd Do? Have a crisis employee running to a student's house when they threaten suicide? Having the police do a welfare check is more appropriate. If someone publicly tweets to fcps and really is serious, it is a cry for help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a link to the FCPS response. Agree that this needs to be taken seriously and jokes about killing yourself should not be tolerant. But threatening to call the police seems like it would discourage kids who really need help.

Well, what do you think fcps shoukd Do? Have a crisis employee running to a student's house when they threaten suicide? Having the police do a welfare check is more appropriate. If someone publicly tweets to fcps and really is serious, it is a cry for help.

Here is what FCPS should not do: publicize the tweet and threaten to call the police. If you look at the comment section of FCPS’s tweet, it is full of anonymous posters threatening to hang themselves unless school is closed again tomorrow. So now rather than 1 “suicide threat” they have 100. And you can pretty much guarantee that threatening to hang oneself if school is not closed is 2018 and 2019’s #closefcps. The FCPS tweet was incredibly stupid. They could have tried to handle it quietly. Instead, they did the one thing that anyone who has ever met a teenage knows not to do: they created a meme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a link to the FCPS response. Agree that this needs to be taken seriously and jokes about killing yourself should not be tolerant. But threatening to call the police seems like it would discourage kids who really need help.

Well, what do you think fcps shoukd Do? Have a crisis employee running to a student's house when they threaten suicide? Having the police do a welfare check is more appropriate. If someone publicly tweets to fcps and really is serious, it is a cry for help.

Here is what FCPS should not do: publicize the tweet and threaten to call the police. If you look at the comment section of FCPS’s tweet, it is full of anonymous posters threatening to hang themselves unless school is closed again tomorrow. So now rather than 1 “suicide threat” they have 100. And you can pretty much guarantee that threatening to hang oneself if school is not closed is 2018 and 2019’s #closefcps. The FCPS tweet was incredibly stupid. They could have tried to handle it quietly. Instead, they did the one thing that anyone who has ever met a teenage knows not to do: they created a meme.

FCPS has to protect themselves. I seriously doubt a real suicide threat would be tweeted to their school system and they probably knew as well. It was CYA- and I doubt they care if that reply became a meme. I doubt any private handling would not be public rather quickly anyway.