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[quote=Anonymous]Just coming in to comment after hearing on NPR this morning about the note. Which included the statement that the kid felt his life was useless and also the phrase "Please help me", besides the references to guns and shooting and blood.

That would be enough--whether you are a highly educated administrator, a working class parent without advanced education--to see this as, at minimum, suicidal thinking, which is often linked to homicidal thinking and acts. My own roots are working class and many of my family is still working class. None of us would abandon a kid at the school after seeing something like that, and I have a hard time understanding that school administrators would not see this as an emergency, whether or not they knew the kid had access to a weapon.

Not to undermine the tragedy experienced by the victims and their families, this is an awful tragedy for the kid as well.

FWIW I did have a sibling who had angry outbursts, and in the midst of one went in his bedroom and shot and killed himself. Strangely, a week later in our small town another kid his age shot and killed his mother during an argument, so I have always seen these acts as two sides of the same coin. As an adult, I have always taken ANY indication of suicidal thinking very seriously and found some way to act--whether calling 911 or something else.  [/quote]

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