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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like your daughter potentially is dealing with anxiety. Her reaction and fear response is out of proportion to the perceived threat.

I would have her assessed for anxiety for sure. [/quote]

Do you have kids in MS or HS right now? They are ALL keenly aware of every school shooting and of threats made by students at their own schools. Yes, they do realize the statistics are slim that anything will happen to them personally, but statistics don't matter when your gut reminds you that someone who talked up rape and murder is suddenly in the room.

My DD's current HS just dealt with a kid who made a social media threat involving taking a gun to school, and her former MS has had threats by students. All this in an academically strong, well-regarded school system with plenty of mental health help, anti-bullying campaigns etc. Kids still are much more concerned about violence than we ever were. That's not "overreacting" and "get treated for anxiety" territory--it's student life in 2018. That's terrible and sad but it is very real.

The OP's daughter's reaction was not excessive at all. She turned to the oldest person around her for advice. She got reamed by an adult who should have known not to have the girl there in the first place and should have known not to address a student like that and make her own daughter's bad situation worse. Of course OP's DD was upset. Leaping to "get her tested for anxiety" is DCUM-talk, where every fearful reaction in a kid is pathologized and made to seem unreasonable.[/quote]

Yeah ... you need to calm down.  Larla's status at the school is not something you know about, other than gossip, [b]and she was there with her MOTHER[/b].  OP and her daughter's reactions were totally disproportionate.  [/quote]

NP: Whose own reaction was a bit off too.[/quote]

Maybe, maybe not.  OP has no idea what lead to the social media stuff.  Larla could have been getting bullied.  [/quote]

Regardless, an adult telling she's going to sue a middle school girl for talking to another girl about her daughter?  It's hard to for me to picture a situation where that's not a bit off.  At least off enough where the presence of the mother should assuage any nervousness about the daughter.  But then I might be biased--the one situation where my own kids got freaked out at school was when the mother of a girl who was a bully to everyone around her started yelling at and berating another child (one known to be quite meek) at their bus stop for being a bully to her daughter.  They came home shaken that an adult could act that way and ended up feeling much more sorry for her daughter.[/quote]

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