Same here, and I agree - but this is different- the killer's parents were screaming "bully" bc they didn't want to deal with their own kid, as happens often. Troubled parents have troubled kids. |
+1 PREACH. |
+1 Totally agree. One day it's a chair thrown across a classroom, or sucker punching a classmate, the next this. |
| Why didn’t the school MAKE them take him home? |
This is no eyeroll. |
They can't. He might be "in a certain situation" (before all this), which gives him more "protections" and his parents have more say, if they know the loopholes. Also, 4th Amendment - schools can't just search and seize property. Same reason Langley and other high schools got rid of lockers. Not worth the hassle with bad kids and their bad parents. As we have seen here, where do you think these kids learn their behaviors? |
Interesting theory. Agree there is something more going on. Also- realize that posters here are speculating. We don’t KNOW that the school asked the parents to take the kid home the that day and they refused. It could have been one of those soft discipline meetings that ends well with everyone agreeing to “do better.” |
1) they had reasonable suspicion to search backpack 2)even without a search, they could have should have notified police, made a report, and had the kid brought home (for to a psych hospital). But they school didn’t because the parents were being a PIA and they thought it would just be easier to send him back to class than to poke a hornets nest (the ahole parents) |
| In one of the news articles, the sheriff stated that the school strongly encouraged the parents to take him home and they refused. |
YES they could have MADE him leave. |
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Didn’t his note from the day before say help me and that he couldn’t stop the thoughts? That isn’t a sociopath. That is a seriously broken person calling out for help. Teens make really bad decisions even from good homes. You take a teen boy who has a serious mental health problem, combined with what appears to be the worst possible parents in the world, feed him with violent video games and encourage him to think violence is cool and that his family is aggrieved by the world, and hand him an auto-matic weapon. We’ll never know if this kid could have been different if raised by sane people who got him help and kept him away from guns—maybe he would have improved or maybe not. His life is ruined now and he’ll never come back from his, obviously.
And by saying that, I’m not forgetting the many other lives he has ruined, or saying that he doesn’t deserve the maximum punishment. |
^ Thank you - told my kids most days of their lives to be kind and polite. I also told them to say please and thank you and not to leave their shoes in the middle of the foyer. |
I’m the high school teacher PP again. All teenage boys DO NOT look like this. His eyes are completely empty. Cold. Devoid of emotion. It is not normal and when we and the kids have to see this in class every day, we KNOW it isn’t right and there’s something wrong. We document document document and pray he doesn’t do anything. The kids avoid. |
So? If the school felt he was unsafe to himself or others then they call police to report it and take him home. They didn’t need parental corporation to have him safely removed. |
You want to believe that but without actual violence being done and the parents refusing, there’s not actually grounds. Policy fails us every time. |