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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, will they get prison for life?[/quote]

No, nor should he. Ye was a minor when he wrote the "manifesto" and was already in treatment for what appears to be pretty significant mental illness. With time and treatment, and given that no acts of violence were actually committed, there is a good chance he can be a functioning member of our community again.

Oh stop it

MCPS did a great job with this,

My child was at Virginia Tech when their Mass shouting occurred. Fairfax county and VT did a crap job. 
In a lot of ways, this is a best case scenario. From the reporting, it seems Ye was already in a residential therapeutic setting when the "book" was discovered, and had disclosed the plans to a HS counselor.

So here we have a young person essentially asking for help, school officials correctly identifying a real threat and taking action, and parents willing to fight for residential placement. Not to mention a lack of readily available weapons.

Think about the school shootings that did happen, all of the times school authorities brushed off a threat, or parents resisted treatment, or kept firearms in the home.

I know this is scary, but it's actually kind of a model case for what happens when the system works. [/quote]

This only did not become a big news story since the parents don't own guns. I can imagine what would have happened if they did. This person needs to be in a psych facility and monitored and hopefully will not acquire a gun ever.

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The part that's NOT being reported on in the press, is the extent to which Alex's parents used their wealth, privilege and the medical system to shield their child from the consequences of their dangerous behavior, allowing them to continue school through virtual school rather than forcing them to go to an alternative school or facing expulsion, as certainly would have been the case if they were lower income and Black or Hispanic. MCPS was complicit in this.[/quote][/quote]  
So how would rich Black and Hispanic do differently?[/quote]

This is a good question and certainly points to the fact that class was in play here. My child knew Alex a little bit, and so I've followed the case with interest. Money is what allowed the parents to get Alex into treatment, not race. It's also what allowed them to support at-home learning, which MCPS was at the time offering to a lot of kids who might otherwise be attending in-person alternative placements.

Expulsion was never on the table, regardless of class and race, because MCPS just doesn't expel kids in the absence of an actual act.

But, yes, it's bad that only UMC families can afford the kind of intensive care that Alex was getting, but it's not an indictment of the parents - it's an indictment of the US mental health care system. [/quote]

The so-called "intensive care" Ye was receiving didn't work. The expensive care and psychiatrists were merely an expensive shield his parents bought to protect him from the consequences of his actions.[/quote]

What a load of crap. What are parents supposed to do? They were doing everything all of us would do to get their child help. You're such a bitter, jealous sort. [/quote]

No they were not. They were very resistant to getting any help because they didn't want a record of mental health treatment to be a bad mark on Ivy school applications.  Counselors and law enforcement had to step in to get the child into a treatment facility. Be thankful all of the county safety nets worked because if it was left up the parents there likely could have been a mass shooting in our schools. 
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