The push for the rights of troubled kids absolutely are the reason this kid was not told to go home with his parents. It’s the reason they were allowed to “decline” to take him home. And why the school didn’t search him. Schools searched lockers and bags all the time when we were kids. All they needed was an anonymous tip. |
| There are a lot of shocking aspects of this story. But for me the most painful/unbelievable/horrible is how a child wrote “help me” on a note, and the parents didn’t help or react or anything. As a parent, I just don’t get it. |
NP. How, precisely, is a school administrator supposed to force a parent to take a child home if that parent declines. Please explain with precision how that works both legally and logistically. |
They can’t anymore. But year ago, they had a lot more leeway to suspend a student, and search them. |
| Years ago, not year |
Not PP, but maybe they call 911 a child threatening to hurt themselves or others seems like an emergency situation |
| Yep, call the police, show them the drawing and tell them what the teacher saw. Sounds like at a minimum an involuntary psych hold to me (5150.) |
+1 Yup. Because problem child's parents insist he is not a problem child and (recite loophole and threat to sue school here). |
Don't the parents have to sign off on this? Not that they would tell us, of course. |
Not if there is reason to believe the person is a danger to themselves or others. |
+1 Also, many of the most troubled kids attended separate schools in years past. If parents really knew the documented backgrounds and behavioral history vlof some of the emotionally disturbed students walking around middle and high school campuses, they would be shocked. |
They withdrew $4,000 in cash, went to an industrial area near the Canada border, failed to appear and oh, Mom dyed her hair. But yeah, totally innocent.
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Okay then, years ago during this golden time that you think existed, how precisely would they have forced a parent to remove a child if the parent declined to take the child. You keep insisting there was a time when administration could do that. I want to know exactly that happened. |
Suspend him for the safety of the student body and if they leave without him, he’s trespassing. Call. The. Police. Are you really this simple? |
So none of you can answer the basic question of how, in years past, administrators used to force parents to remove children from the school when the parents refused, yet you are all positive this used to happen regularly. Got it. |