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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re in FCPS, you would report it to the principal. A risk assessment would be completed by a member of the school support team (psychologist, counselor or social worker) with an administrator present because it was a threat to another person (versus a threat to self). There is a protocol with very specific questions to help determine the level of seriousness of the threat. They then follow through with contacting parents, discipline, etc. [/quote]

Thanks. What happens after this step? Assuming if the independent evaluation comes back clear the student returns to class.

If the student is allowed back, how do they deal with the fallout? Who knows how the student will react to being disciplined. Other students report anger issues in class. These kids are about to go through a time of life when big feelings only get bigger. Would you keep your child at the school for the rest of their education if the other kid was staying?[/quote]

This is what you care about?

Ethan Crumbley was doing the exact same thing.  REPORT IT NOW.  [/quote]

I think we should all take it down a notch. I agree that OP should go to the school. But many many kids (and this kid is just 10-11) express fantasies like this. There’s a massive difference between normal (albeit undesirable) expressions and serious mental illness + guns that happened in the Crumbley case. [/quote]

Literally no.

I work in this field and can tell you that this is the age when these signs first manifest themself.  Many kids do draw pictures of weapons and fights, but few draw specific pictures targeting one individual.  Also, if the child is disruptive or bullying, I would see it as a serious concern.

Having worked with parents of school shooters and violent juveniles, I would be at the school first thing and want a target hardening report done of the school as well as a threat assessment of the child.[/quote]

literally yes. you’re engaged in a logical fallacy/cognitive bias. just because some kids who engage in violence draw guns doesn’t mean every kid who expresses violent ideas is going to engage in violence.

yes the school should take is seriously, but hysteria is not necessary. [/quote]

Of course this is cognitive bias.  I spent a significant amount of time working with parents after an act of violence and you know what they all said "I wish I had done more"

But, if you think a child threatening to kill another and drawing pictures of that is normal...you do you.[/quote]

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