The world is eff'd up!

This definitely needs it's own topic.

WTF?!?!!

I'm glad everything is ok. 

Just hugged my son for the twentieth time tonight. He told me to let it go and that he needed to go play NBA2K17 with his friends. Seriously. I could have lost my son today. He's my best freind. 

Link. 

So glad to hear your son is okay Chili. 

Holy Smokes that is F'ed up.  Glad you & your son are safe!

Glad to hear your son is OK man.  Keep hugging him.  He'll get over it.  

We're churning out psychopaths like it was our job.  

Glad it ended well Chili.  

If your kids are spending too much time on line. Maybe let them. Loads of kids tell my son the police got their guy but not THE guy. Daniel and Dan are partners. 

He shows me his group chats and everyone wants to know where "Dan" is. 

I call my cousin, former fed undercover, and tell him to look into Dan. He tells me he can't based on me calling him. He tells me to call non emergency local PD and relay this information and Dan's online posts. 

Local PD tells me all suspects are in custody. I asked if that included "Dan". 

"Everyone in question has been detained"

Thanks Cuz. 

The world is a scary place but it is reassuring to know that there are people working hard to make it safer.  Wishing you all a peaceful night's sleep.

Thanks all. Sincerely. 

That's horrible Chilijon! I hope your son is okay and justice is served on the perp and any accomplices he may have had. No one deserves this kind of crap. I hope the rest of your family is okay, as well. 

Worst thing I ever had to deal with in high school was being sent home because some chucklehead called in a bomb threat because he hadn't studied for an exam.

Kudos to the public servants who are looking out for us.

Gosh!  Thank God your son is fine!

All the best CJ

Glad everything went in your favor CJ.

I just don't understand the mental state of so many people these days.  I have wanted to punch people in my life (but never have) but I have never wanted to kill anyone any time during my life.  Only thing I was concerned with in high school was joking around, playing sports, girls, and where's the party. 

My son is such a kind soul I would be ruined if he were the victim of something this stupid and senseless.  I hope that's the first and last you ever have of this.

So thankful that nothing came of this other than an interruption at school and significant worry. Glad that everyone is fine.

My heart hurts reading this Chili...nothing worse.  Hang in there.

It absolutely amazes me how far we've devolved as a society, but I'm glad everyone is okay. 

Scary stuff....thankful it worked out for you and yours.

Crap like this happening way too often. Most of it is mimicry, but that doesn't make it any less unnerving. 

Glad everything is OK.

Man, when I think about what I had to worry about in my school days vs now, Jesus ****. I'm so glad your son is OK. Little wonder many parents just keep their kids at home and home school them.

oh wow...glad your son is ok..along with everyone else....

Henry posted:

We're churning out psychopaths like it was our job.  

And arming them well.

Chilli, is there any word at all of what might become if this little creep?

Just got back from an open forum at the school. Lots of questions, lots of confusion, lots of angry parents. Most parents didn't have much details of what went down yesterday. I have no idea why that would be. I knew pretty much everything that went down. My lone question was to see if the school or PD would tell me if the second student arrested (the kid that actually did this) was arrested after the school released the lockdown. The question caught them off guard. They couldn't tell me definitely that they did. 

My sons baseball coach is also a chief with the fire department. I called him this am to see if he could confirm that "Dan" was still being detained. He is so I let my son return to school. 

To answer your question Yoop, he's suspended from school for 5 days. He'll be interviewed by the district supervisory board in charge of discipline. After the 5th day the board will either release the student and allow him to return to school or he'll be permanently expelled from school. Reasonable to assume he's going to be expelled. In which case he becomes a concern on a daily basis going forward. 

I mean, "Dan" did post this on his Twitter page two months ago...

Thanks again to everyone for the kind words. Much appreciated. Mods if you want to kick this to the lounge and get it off the big board, feel free. 

I think "Dan" needs a little more than a 5 day vacation and expulsion.  If he's indeed guilty of this he needs to feel what a bit of incarceration feels like, what a loss of freedom really means.  6 months of juvy wouldn't seem excessive to me, something like that.

How old are these kids?

15. 

Tdog posted:

Only thing I was concerned with in high school was joking around, playing sports, girls, and where's the party. 

That is so true....

What happened to showing respect to your fellow person?

I can't stand it anymore. 

Seems there's always been the occasional wack a doo teenager.  We had a couple in a very small school.  One was rumored to have played russian roulette at a party and then was whispering to his friends that he was going to bomb our graduation.  So there were several under cover guys at our very sleepy small town's HS graduation ceremony.  

Back then you always chalked it up to somebody with a big mouth and lots of hot air because nothing really ever came of it.  But now, it seems since the first one happened (columbine) and got so much media coverage, and then the subsequent increasing of their frequencies...kids of that mindset almost seem emboldened to "pull the trigger" on their plans, for lack of a better cliche.  Not necessarily for the "fame" but knowing that if someone else could do it, so could they.  It's a horrifying social and mental health development.

Chilli, I'm sure we're all relieved your kid is safe and disheartened by what you had to go through as a parent.  I'm sure you'll do everything humanly possible to keep him safe.

For those interested I suggest readin 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen.  Chilling and informative...you will find out that what was reported was not quite what happened.

Glad things turned out OK for you and your family Chilli.  My wife is a library assistant at our local high school and I'm going to make sure she reads this. 

Pikes Peak posted:

For those interested I suggest readin 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen.  Chilling and informative...you will find out that what was reported was not quite what happened.

May I guess clueless/disengaged parenting was a factor?

Blair Kiel posted:

Pikes Peak posted:

For those interested I suggest readin 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen.  Chilling and informative...you will find out that what was reported was not quite what happened.

May I guess clueless/disengaged parenting was a factor?

Bingo

I've worked in 3 High Schools over the past 30 years as a School Psychologist. In most cases students with some type of mental illness will send up plenty of "red flags". The key is to have school personnel who make connections with the students & report these signs to people who can help by working directly with the student, contacting the family, or the police if necessary. One key I believe is to have schools small enough that students with these problems are recognized. The schools I've worked at are all between 550-750 students. Much more difficult in very large schools that have a high rate of incoming transfer students. 

So the kid that was pulled out of my sons class yesterday that wasn't the actual person of interest returned to school today. My son told me everyone in class told him sorry he had to go through what he did. 

Tough being a kid in 2016. Gotta be good in class, keep your head on a swivel, be respectful, listen to everything, stand your ground but don't offend. 

So glad it turned out well for your son and everyone else, CJ. I just can't imagine. 

I'll ditto what's already been said, Chilli.   I'm praying that this will be a wake-up call to the school and community and will help foster an environment of goodwill.  Schools can often rebound from the trauma and become an even better place for ALL kids.   I've seen this done in many schools with success.  Keep us in the loop if you can.