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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would tell my son not to let his mouth write checks he can’t cash. I teach high school and see this all the time - kid runs his mouth and catches the right one on the wrong day. Tell your principal I guess but first deal with your son who created the issue. [/quote]

He has adhd and anxiety. If you really are a teacher, you understand kids KNOW not to do it, but don’t always have the impulse control to prevent it.   [/quote]

DO have you considered that your son’s anxiety makes him think that there’s a crowd of kids all carrying knives and prepared to use them? [/quote]
Ah, the people who don't understand today's schools. Same people who blame teachers for being "overpaid" and entitled.  [/quote]

I wrote that comment and I’m a public school teacher. Every year, anxious students at my school tell their parents things about gangs, weapons, and drugs that simply are not true. Some of it is that they are told these things by older students who are trying to frighten them. However, a lot of these students have anxiety and manufacture these threats to their safety on their own. Not infrequently with the help of family biases toward people of a particular race, ethnicity, or SES. [/quote]

+1 
I'm the former sped teacher who posted a while back. What a lot of non-teachers fail to realize is that the truly bad kids don't come to school at all. They're out in the streets doing God knows what. I might be worried about this kid if OP said her son was targeted and bullied out of nowhere, but it sounds like OP's child started something and the kid said just enough to shut him up and scare him. Any high school teacher can tell you that the kids who will stab, fight, or seriously hurt you are not going to talk about it or sit patiently and wait. They will snap and attack him immediately without a moment's hesitation. The only delayed reactions you'll see are usually when a kid uses his phone to arrange to have someone jumped after school the same day. One thing about street justice... it's swift. [/quote]

Yup. They’d never warn him. They’d jump him in the bathroom or the stairs where it’s harder for someone to walk by and see you. [/quote]

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