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Is it school administration that is dropping the ball? It sounds like the students, parents and teachers are being mindful and voicing their concerns. Where does this translate into some form of action?
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Happened at my school. Kid threatened to shoot up the school. Cops arrested him. Found a kill list. Made the evening news. Superintendent said in the paper he would not be allowed back under any circumstances.
Ten days later the kid strolls right back in my classroom. Lawyer argued he was on the spectrum and acting out. >

sounds like it was a shit manifestation determination meeting and the district didn't even want to bring in their lawyers >

What happens if one of the students on the list gets a restraining order filed against the kid threatening to shoot up the school?  I mean my understanding is this would suffice since he created fear of imminent serious physical harm. >

The courts have ruled that cops have zero duty to protect any person from harm.
An NYC cop hid from a violent knife wielder who had been stabbing people for a day already. Then watched as a man stopped him and got injured in the process.
The man sued the cops for not helping, and the courts sided with the cop saying they had no special duty to protect. >

Joe Lozito, who fought and stopped the knife guy, made a video about it. >

Oh yeah I remember that. I was a regular Cracked user back when that came out.  Amazing how it's still infuriating all these years later.
Almost seems like your best course of action when seeking police assistance is to Lie to dispatchers and tell them you killed the bad guys.
Wouldn't have helped Lozito in this situation, but it might help other people and maybe cause some deserved stress for police departments. >

Tell them you think he killed a cop. >

holy crap that would be a zergling rush of cops >

I’m sure this will end well. >

"Well, we can't really DO anything yet. So we gotta let him, you know, get some of you, er, he didn't even do anything wrong! Turn that camera off! Stop mixing my words up!" >

It's weird, especially now with all the added school security, because when I was in 7th grade (ca. 2007), there was a girl a grade above me who created a "kill list" (probably at that point just Papa Roach-fueled angst, which is why I put it in quotations), and it was handled pretty severely. She had to go to another school after it was discovered. 
I wouldn't be surprised if the decision to let this kid resume classes was due to teacher shortages. >

This new generation today doesn't know how to be emo. They actually act it out instead of pretend like we did! And we looked cooler doing it too. >

God this sounds exactly what people were saying about millennials lol >

First millennials ruined wine and now this! >

“I don’t understand everything the youths are doing and it scares me and they must be wrong!” >

"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!" >

No way man! >

This totally happened in Bellbrook, OH circa 2011. The cops came out, FBI and everything after a high school students kill list was found. They did nothing. Absolutely less than nothing. Then, now brace yourselves for this shocker, guess what happened? This same person became the Dayton, OH mass shooter in the Oregon District that took 9 lives in 2019. Holy shit right? The number one thing that psychologists fucking agree on was correct. >

We receive yearly training on active shooter preparation. 
80 percent of these bastards tell others of their intentions. 
Do something. >

Why is that? Seriously? Is it a call for help? Clearly there is something going on for that to happen. >

Yes it is. They often want to be stopped. I know because I was that kid. The only reason I didn't become one was I didn't have access to guns. If I had a gun I definitely would have. I was completely and utterly unwell then. I was bullied to an incredible degree and every single day was hell for me. I wanted them to suffer. I dreamed about it every single night. I wanted the dreams to stop, but night after night I fantasized about murdering my abusers. >

username reference, Glad you stepped into the light!
Hope you are a bit better for it! >

I wouldn't say I ever came into the light, but rather endured the darkness til the dawn. >

You know what, I like you! >

Thanks! I snooped your profile a bit. Only reason I didn't join the military after college is my mental health. I would have probably gone all pvt joker or some shit. Thanks for serving. >

Private Pyle I'm assuming is what you mean... >

Yes I did mean that. Long time since I watched Full Metal Jacket. >

Surprised all the parents haven't pulled their kids from school. >

I’m surprised people are still having kids at all >

I've ALWAYS wanted kids. My whole life I wanted 2 kids. Within the past 5 or so years, I find myself wanting kids less and less. I just don't know that I can bring another life into THIS world. >

Totally get that tbh adopting seems more sensible, you aren’t adding more life yet you can take care of someone who needs it the most >

I'm also in my 30s so there's a reasonable chance that my future partner may already have a kid/kids. 
Adoption would definitely be an option I'd be open to, though. Hell, my parents have adopted my younger cousin after her pos mom did her normal pos things. >

I like you and your family. Some of the good ones, right here. >

Thank you, I appreciate that. 
My parents are far from perfect, but I never doubted whether they loved me or if they would be there for me even when I fucked up. >

As a teacher, I belong to several teacher forums. Sadly, incidents like these are way too common. Students and staff try and do the right thing and report to admin whenever there’s a threat, but nothing gets done. Luckily, our school would never tolerate any of the things I read about daily. However, sadly that’s not the case at many schools. 
Obviously, the nature of the threat is important to consider. However, death threats and kill lists should be taken extremely seriously. Parents have every right to be angry.