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[quote=Anonymous]I'm tempted to blame the school at least in part. But as other PPs have pointed out, it isn't necessarily as easy to force a kid to leave the school these days as it once was (or should be.)

Here's a case in point: I have a kid at BCC, where a classmate recently assaulted another student (younger and much smaller) with a chair, so badly that the victim was hospitalized and required stitches. Within minutes of the news of this attack circulating around the school, as kids were being held in their classrooms rather than rotating to the next class as scheduled, tons of kids including my own were texting one another that it must be a particular kid. And it was. The kid who committed the assaulted another BCC student was well-known as violent and 'a little off' to quote my kid. He had been 'expelled' or moved from Westland MS and at least one other HS. And by the way, after the assault, he or his friends then apparently circulated rumors of an attack (rumors are either bombs or guns) on the school.

In this case, everyone was lucky, relatively speaking - there was only one person hurt in this latest incident, and the wider bomb/gun threat to the school was a hoax. Still, this kid was known to be violent from previous incidents stretching back more than 4 years, and he was still moved around the MCPS system all throughout that time.

Will schools be more cautious in the future? I hope so. At minimum school administrators have to assume - even here in the liberal DMV - that every violent kid poses a risk of a mass shooting. Because even if that worst case doesn't happen, it could have been your kid or mine who was beaten with a chair by a student that everyone knew was a threat.[/quote]

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