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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So... what actually happened?[/quote]

The rumor is that one boy was gently teasing another. That kid went nuts and started beating the crap out of the teaser with a chair, to the point where he was hospitalized. Then he ran off, so the school was put into lockdown.

I don't think metal detectors are helpful if the weapon of choice is a chair. What is needed is better mental health interventions, and removing children with this kind of disposition to more secure facilities where they can be catered for more appropriately.[/quote]

Sounds like he was being bullied. Not gently teased.[/quote]

Can’t make that assumption based on what PP wrote. Not all teasing is considered bullying. [/quote]

Granted that there are different forms of teasing.  But the description of 'gently teasing' seems really off.  Odds are that there is a back-story so that if this one instance seemed 'gentle' from the outside it was likely one of many interactions this kid faced on an ongoing basis. The last straw.[/quote]

To be clear, no one deserves to be beaten by a chair and the other 'teasing' could have come from other kids.  But what I'm saying is that I don't think the kid who lashed out would have described his situation as 'gentle teasing.'[/quote]

Sounds like both kids were bullies.  There is no such thing as gentle teasing.  The parent must be justifying their kid being a bully with "gentle" teasing.  That is bullying when its not wanted.  Clearly the chair attacker didn't think it was "gentle" teasing and snapped.[/quote]

There was no bullying. I heard directly from a friend of my child’s who witnessed it that it was just a sports-related joke that it no way could be considered bullying. I won’t go into more detail to protect their anonymity, but the people thinking this is someone snapping after years of bullying are really barking up the wrong tree.[/quote]

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