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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.
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. >

Yeah, I had a dude threatening to throw me off the ferry a few months back. This guy was probably over 6 feet tall. I am 5’5” and under 100lbs. He is absolutely physically capable of hurting me.  I went to the cops who were legit standing and watching. They told me to take the next ferry. I did not take the next ferry because I needed to be somewhere and fuck that. He followed me around on the ferry. I was inside, so no hope of “throwing me off” but I went to the cops again to say he was following me. They shrugged. I found a large group of men in construction vests on their way home after work. Told them, pointed the dude out, and asked if I could sit with them and walk off the boat with them. They walked me out of the entire building and waited for a car to come. The threatening dude followed me off the ferry! He was behind a pole and I saw him angrily staring as we drove away. Cops are useless. Useless useless useless. If a big man is following you around, find a group of dudes in the reflective vests. They are the fucking champs. >

And now you understand why the US has such a gang problem. >

Hell, how many different gangs are in the LAPD? >

Currently there are 18 known gangs within LASD >

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.