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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its strange how so many on this forum are minimizing this incident.  From what kids are saying, the guy claimed at one point to have planted a bomb, and, at a minimum, deliberately went to the school to hit another kid in the head with a weapon (yeah, frying pan is weird...but thank god it was just that).  Certainly plenty of evidence that this individual was mentally unstable.

Lots of rumors floating around, not sure what's true.  But just last week there was talk of a student reporting some online threats, leading police to investigat something.  Not sure whats truth vs fiction but I know kids and families are upset.  That's why I'm the poster who suggested the school call a meeting.  It's their job to tell us what's really up.  [/quote]

No, it isn't. Especially if this is, for example, a special ed student in the Emotional Disabilities or LFI program who had a behavioral outburst. If that is the case (and ABC7 mentioned possible mental health issues so it's quite possible), then you have no right to know what this student's disability is, what supports are in place, or any of his other confidential information. It is illegal for the school to tell you anything. The only people entitled to that information would be the IEP team. Being a "concerned parent" doesn't entitle you to participate with the IEP team in the manifestation determinations meeting or conduct a campaign to have him expelled or sent to RICA, so you will just have to be satisfied with unsubstantiated rumors and the knowledge that if it were your kid, their school psych evaluations wouldn't end up on Bethesda Beat either. [/quote]

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