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[quote]Another former DCPS teacher, I am now in MCPS. The straw that broke the camel's back for me, happened when my second grader brought a steak knife to the school to stab a boy he didn't like. I called the the school security. Teachers in DCPS are forbidden from calling the police, instead the school security officer or the administration are the only ones who can call. The school that I worked at worked with the local police station and had specific officers that were assigned to the school. So, whenever the school called, only the officers who worked closely with the school were called. The administration and security guards also had these officers personal cell phone numbers. This ensures that this is never a record of 911 being dialed from the school number. IF 911 if called from a school number, the administration and those in the office have to report it and file an incident report with central office.

[b]I'm trying to imagine what would make a second grader feel so threatened that he would settle on stabbing someone as the best solution.  Just thinking about it is giving me chills.[/b][/quote]

Ugh, this is such a pretensions white high SES parent thing to say.  He must feel threatened to do something like this! Nah, the kid most probably saw or heard older kids use this as a solution when other kids have pissed them off or done something they don't like, so the 2nd grader decides if the older kids did it to solve their problem, then he will to.  [/quote]

You kinda suck at being a person.  It's probably not useful news to you, but when you finally come to the realization you might recall that you'd been warned.

I sincerely hope you don't have kids of your own but if you do, you should be made aware that they're learning how to solve problems at that age but not very skilled.  Implications sit in a nebulous cloud of possibilities that they've gleaned from sources as varied as overheard conversations and as unreliable as cartoons.

They do know fear pretty well, though, and it's reasonable to conclude that kid was scared and didn't feel he could rely on anyone to help him.
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And BTW, I'm not white. [/quote]

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