The PARENTS should have insisted on searching the backpack. If I’m sitting in a principals office with my husband and kid, having this discussion about disturbing drawings, my first thought would be….mmmmm… and hubby bought junior a gun, just four days ago. Sweetie I’m fine if you want to stay at school today but let’s just look in your backpack and make sure nothing is there that shouldn’t be. And if he refuses to open it? Well, we do have a problem How hard is this, for parents who are rational and connected to their kids? |
Schools have pretty wide latitude to search. In this case they had a strong case for reasonable suspicion |
Yup. Absent actual violence, the school policy would likely not allow him to be removed. Now add uncooperative, entitled, and possibly mentally ill parents to the equation. In fact, the school policy may say to keep him in school if administrators have any inclination of a terrible home life. |
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Look, no one is excusing the horrible parents and their behavior. But the buck should have stopped at the school and the school had the authority and means to search the backpack AND/OR call the police when parents failed to remove him. But the didn’t. They dropped the ball when the potentially could have changed the trajectory of what happened |
It isn’t hard but these aren’t those parents. These parents likely helped him plan his attack. They bought the weapon. They knew he was searching ammo. They insisted he stay on school after being shown his drawings. You could say that by doing those things at school where a teacher could see, the student might have been crying out for help. I think his parents helped him plan it and possibly convinced or coerced him to do it. |
Dude. They are on the east side becuase they were trying to get to Canada. They lived 50 miles away, in a community that was overwhelmingly white and middle class. The mom was a real estate agent, the dad was worked in the technology industry. Stop trying to make this about Black people. |
| ^puck, not buck! |
| The mom was not a realtor, she had a license for it years ago, it’s apparentpy long lapsed. It’s pretty obvious from their crummy jobs or lack thereof, their crummy house, their behavior, and their kid’s neglect they’re some sort of addicts. Maybe just booze but that area is a hotbed for opioids, meth, heroin. |
| The more I learn about these parents I actually start feeling bad for the kid! |
They are poor and uneducated. They are not middle class. They live in a dump. Oxford has a lot of white trash run down sections of town. |
| Did the kid have a freshman year of high school or was he at home alone all day alone doing virtual? Sounds like he likely went off the rails and was radicalized recently — probably by 24/7 access to Internet and the solitude of virtual learning. |
Y’all will do absolutely anything to avoid admitting entitled angry white parental raise violent entitled angry white sons. |
I mean, their house looks FINE to me? It's not Bethesda beautiful, but it's a pretty common home in the Oakland County exurbs. |
| Frankly even the new build middle class and UMC sections of Oxford with McMansions are a little “off”. If you have the money to afford a $500k-$1m McMansion and were in any way sophisticated you’d live in Oakland Twp, Rochester, Birmingham, Troy — not a podunk exurb like Oxford. |