Some crazy neo-nazi kid threatened to shoot up school.  the scary thing is the story they sent the parents omitted tons of information that I fortunately was able to obtain on my own.  The kid was kicked out of two schools already for making similar threats.  how he got in my son's school is a mystery to me.  Anyway, this world is scary as crap at times.

Scares me how lenient we are, especially when my wife and I talk about being parents....

Rain
Scares me how lenient we are, especially when my wife and I talk about being parents....

I won't lie.  It is scary but also the single most rewarding thing in my life.  Even moments like today remind me of what  a blessing they are.

Oh, don't call him a crazy neo nazi. That's offensive to all the neo nazis in the world. We can't offend anyone. He's really just a victim of today's society. We must try to understand him.

Leadfoot
Oh, don't call him a crazy neo nazi. That's offensive to all the neo nazis in the world. We can't offend anyone. He's really just a victim of today's society. We must try to understand him.

lol.

Actually, although I normally eschew such touchy-feely sociological fantasies, in this case I think the kid really is a victim. I just don't know of what.
 
Think about it this way...kids aren't born with the desire to shoot people or bomb schools, they have to learn that.
 
School shootings are a recent phenomenon, even though guns, teen impulsiveness, insecurity and fascination with violence are not. You have to wonder what's changed. 
 
 

I suppose he is a victim of being born to a father teaching him hate and violence from the beginning. What are the odds he would NOT become a danger to others?

I just can't help thinking there's a lot of dark, violent imagery and ideas in popular culture these days which, for the most part, doesn't turn everyone into foam-mouthed lunatics, but does push a few "already troubled" kids over the edge. Plus school shootings are bound to snowball as each one inspires a series of copycats.

It could also be influenced by the fact that kids these days seem to grow up thinking that every thought and emotion they feel is valid because THEY thought it. Apparently checking your emotions with reason is no longer fashionable. Plus everyone's watching this tacky reality tv BS in which emotionally immature d-bags are portrayed dealing with all of their problems in a series of staged confrontations. I've noticed people becoming more confrontational in public and I wonder if this kind of TV is having an effect.

The official school message was vague and the news story did not help so I met with school principal to find out exactly what happened. I got some relief to learn kid is no longer in school but even more disturbed at what he was doing there to begin with. Apparently there is a loophole thag allowed this obviously disturbed kid to enroll a couple of weeks ago despite being kicked out of two schools for similar incidents. I no longer fear his school is in imminent danger since I doubt he was there long enough to make personal enemies other than his general hatred of minorities. Won't bore you all with the details but I will say I feel better on how principal handled things and floored by the incompetence of both local police and school board. :(

Skool... how things have changed since I was there. If I deserved it they beat my arse with a paddle. I never failed but they used to fail people for bad grades, now you only fail if you don't show up enough. My wife went back to college in the 90s and was floored by the HS grads who could not write a complete sentence... but we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Maybe they need to bring back stools and dunce hats. Discipline never hurt me, I think discipline shows love, of course I know we don't need dunce hats but we desperately need some sort of discipline in our schools, not 'mean' sort of discipline but loving arse whipping. I was slapped in the face by my 5th grade teacher for something two friends were doing and that is still with me, we don't need hurtful discipline... but we need discipline. Some of these misfits would not be misfits if they had discipline, not meanness.
 
Now.. they let some disturbed guy into school and send your kid home for eating his poptart into the shape of a gun. Yes... I mean No... I don't get it.
 
I am glad everything is OK at the school. May it stay well.
 
J