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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, wow.  That is a terrible burden for her to bear.  It is not her fault and, really, she shouldn't try to take responsibility for it but it will be hard for her to not try to do it.  I hope she gets some help dealing with all of this.[/quote]

Yes, my heart goes out to this young woman who came forward to share more. There really wasn't much any of these people could do to prevent this. As crazy as he sounded, there wasn't anything reportable unless he shared an actual plan to kill the parents. Hopefully something she shares will help another family prevent this sort of tragedy-maybe they will read the story and recognize their own kid/friend. Who knows?

Interesting to note the boy had friends there and he shared these views at school so there is the potential other young people may share his views. It sounds like this is the type of school where there are enough adults that they will tune into this. I hope so and I hope the other students get the support they need as they process this. It's a very small school so likely everyone knew eachother.[/quote]

These kids have enough going on in their lives w/o stigmatizing them and their school.  The boy was mentally unstable and he said inappropriate things in class - that seems clear.  [/quote]]

I have a child with SN myself and I don't see this as stigmatizing the school. There is nothing shameful in putting your child in a more specialized setting. I see the school has some internal work to do if this hatred was spewed inside, but I also pray for every student. If anything this story is opening my eyes more to all that I need to do to help prepare my own child with SN for the real world and I will pay even closer attention to significant others. I truly hope the daughter is able to turn her life on a much better path and have something positive come out of this in terms of her choices for the future. It's a very complicated and heartbreaking situation.[/quote]

It was the statement that if this guy had friends at this school then maybe those friends also shared his neo nazi views.  That.[/quote]

Thanks for clarifying. I wrote both posts. I think this needs to be explored within the school. Every school has problems and you either sweep them under the rug which makes them worse or you face them head on. There may be kids who need intervention either because they were brainwashed or they did the brainwashing. This can happen at any school regardless of the type of school. There is extreme prejudice lurking in mainstream public and private schools too. Once you know you have a problem it has to be faced. That's what I meant.[/quote]

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