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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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