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I'm sorry your going through that. My brother was like this but non verbal and very low mental function. He would usually hurt himself first but he'd also pull hair. God forbid you're in his path. My parents sent him to a specialized boarding school after all of our hair had been pulled enough times and a stranger once... he might have been 8 or 9 when we sent him. It was the best thing they could have done honestly. They did a really good job with him and now he lives in a very nice group home as an adult. He's much more leveled out now that he's on a very strict routine. Sometimes day to day normal life can be too much for autistic kids and we don't have the professional skills to manage that 24/7.
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. >

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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I does seem like that, however, it’s really the government doing it. Students, even ones like this, have so many protections under laws in regulations. It’s virtually impossible to expel students now. I’m not an admin but I’ve seen things like this play out in my job. >

I don’t have the answers but school shooters often trigger red flags before they do anything. When that happens do the children become vulnerable ,possible victims, in preservation of the aggressor child’s rights? >

I don’t have the answers either. I just know it sucks. The education system is completely overwhelmed with little support. >

Happened at my school in 2007.
Someone wrote on the wall that they were going to bring their guns on 4/20 during our schools pep rally. Cops came into the school. Started going through lockers. Pep rally still happened. No shooting happened. 
That Monday, they started questioning students and going through lockers more. Had our bags checked coming in. No guns found. But on Tuesday or Wednesday they found a kill list in someone's locker.
He was interviewed. Admitted to writing on the wall. 6 weeks away from the end of their freshman year. Expelled.
During the summer his family got a lawyer. He was back in the same school after the summer. >

your school had a pep rally for 420? >

Look just ignore it for 5 years , everything will be fine , just a future school shooter which is like a once a week thing now so like not to big of a deal >

Ya it's not like he shot anyone when he was 6. >

You know I thought the 6 year old one was oniony at first when I heard someone mention it I thought “a 6year old shooter seems to far fetched “ 
But I was proven very very wrong when I seen the actual news story >

This is America >

Everyone keeps telling me it’s a Wendy’s though >

It is and what is your order sir!? >

I'm gonna be honest here. My son's on the spectrum and made threats at school When he was 11. I pulled him out and have been homeschooling him since. I recognized early on that when he gets triggered he goes from 0 to 60 in a second. When he gets upset, he threatens both me and my wife. I've done everything in my power to keep my house safe. I've done everything I can to keep others safe. But the first thing I did was recognize my son might become a danger to others, and I've done everything in my power to make sure he doesn't end up on the evening news. 
I can't for the life of me understand why a parent would just send their kid back to school after making dangerous threats or behavior. >

They could still end up on the news for killing either you or your wife.
Hopefully you are both doing your due diligence in taking them to therapy, and I truly do hope that with proper help and love that they learn ways to manage those emotions. >

He hasn't physically acted out toward us yet except for punching my once, and he usually has an immediate apologetic response. He's autistic, and at the age where hormones are kicking in. He's under complete supervision, the house has alarms on all doors, knives are in a locked drawer, we don't have guns, and the baseball bat stays in the garage. Wife and I aren't angry people, so we never fight, and we generally have the same ideas/beliefs on politics and life, so there really isn't any aggression to feed off of. 
He has a therapist, and a doctor thats trying to find medications that will help without turning him into a zombie. We've done everything in our power. Now we just hope we can figure this all out before he becomes an adult.