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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Also, what kind of threat assessment? Who would have access to the results?[/quote]

Depend on the state, a threat assessment is a mental health evaluation done by professionals to see if this is just general kid stuff, expressing anger at something in the home life, or if there is a threat/rish that the child will take action.

Example, FCPS has a threat assessment protocol that they must follow in cases such as these.  The folks who would have access are the Childs family and the school.  Again, each school district and state is different.[/quote]

Thanks, I really appreciate this. We are at a private school so I don’t know what protocol, if any, they need to follow. Maybe from the state.

If the assessment clears the child to come back, how reliable is it?

This is a case in which the child is known to have anger outbursts in class over various issues and has had difficulty with other kids. My kid has been singled out (according to their friends and classmates also) over the past year or two. It has been addressed via conversations with teachers and parents. The conversation with parents was recent. The gun and knife were drawn on a school assignment asking children to picture what they wanted to happen in the new year. Child showed it and explained it to other classmates who reported. It is concerning that this happened after the conversation with parents, as it’s unclear how the child will respond to further discipline and isolation.

My heart truly breaks for the child, the teacher, and everyone — it’s not a good situation. At the same time my first job as a parent is to make sure my teacher was safe.[/quote]

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