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Who decided the parent didn't need to be sitting next to this kid on that day? Hope that administrator who approved his attendace without them goes to jail TOO. Seriously. Kid never belonged there in the first place.

It was likely a perfect storm of factors. Just speculating, but here’s some possibilities:
He’s had 5 months of somewhat reasonable behavior while his parents supervised him in class. It seems safe to take the risk because that particular day, mom is feeling unwell and dad can’t take off work at such short notice because his boss has already warned him twice that his absences are a problem. If he goes to school unsupervised and gets into trouble, what’s the worse that could happen? He’s six after all. Mom would come pick him up. Meanwhile, she’ll take some DayQuil and nap until dismissal.

Again, this is just a possibility, but it’s a decision many of us should recognize that we might make under the same circumstances.
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And this would have been a reasonable set of risks to take, had the parents not chosen to have a gun at home.  This is on the parents.  No parents of a child with this behavioral profile should have a firearm at home.  No way, no how.  I say this as a parent of a child with emotional dysregulation due to prenatal alcohol exposure.  When my child was the age of the child in this situation, they would easily have tried to get access to a weapon when in an extremely dysregulated condition.  Even though I grew up in a part of the US where gun ownership is common, and I grew up around guns, there was/is NO WAY I would ever have a gun in my home because of my child's disability.  Children have a knack for getting at prohibited items.  The risks are just too great.  [/quote]

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