In 4th grade (like 2003) I was suspended from school for “spreading a rumor.” A classmate had shown me she had a list of people she hated and wanted to kill and I went around telling those kids because that’s what my 4th grade mind thought was the correct course of action.
The girl who had the list cried and said it was untrue so I got a week off from school. This was obviously before it was commonplace in American schools to run an active shooter drill right after your tornado drill.
As a local for this story, Fox29 sucks. They are taking advantage of the parents and anyone else who doesn’t realize “credible threat” is a specifically defined term.
The police are not saying the child wasn’t threatened. They are not saying there isn’t a threat. They are saying the threat isn’t credible. Here is how that is actually considered:
1. Is there an intent to do harm?
2. Is there an ability to do harm?
3. If it is still unclear, the school and police work together to determine if it’s an urgent and immediate threat or if it’s a person venting and behaving inappropriately but not imminent and real danger – essentially, is it a kid who is crying out for help or vocalizing a want to punish the world around him. That at worst is a pre-danger intervention stage. The school absolutely will be handling it as such, which the news is biasedly and intentionally not including in the story. It’s manufactured outrage.
These are 10 and 11 year olds that have no means to shoot up a school and are wishing someone else would do it. They are conversing about “if someone does, I hope it hurts X, Y, Z kid we don’t like”.
There is no intent to personally harm someone, there is no capability to shoot someone.
Lower Merion is an area with more money than sense often times. My sister teaches in the district. She hasn’t said anything about this story, but from everything she’s said about other things…these parents are obnoxious and litigious. This is absolutely a parent positioning a law suit against the school district for any and every way that they can and getting the press on their side. Horseshit like this is why teachers burn out.
Relevant_Monstrosity says
As a student who suffered such bullying, good. It’s traumatic to fear for your life in school.
MacNuggetts says
In 4th grade (like 2003) I was suspended from school for “spreading a rumor.” A classmate had shown me she had a list of people she hated and wanted to kill and I went around telling those kids because that’s what my 4th grade mind thought was the correct course of action.
The girl who had the list cried and said it was untrue so I got a week off from school. This was obviously before it was commonplace in American schools to run an active shooter drill right after your tornado drill.
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sprint6864 says
[The only nation with this problem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58)
obi-jawn-kenobi says
As a local for this story, Fox29 sucks. They are taking advantage of the parents and anyone else who doesn’t realize “credible threat” is a specifically defined term.
The police are not saying the child wasn’t threatened. They are not saying there isn’t a threat. They are saying the threat isn’t credible. Here is how that is actually considered:
1. Is there an intent to do harm?
2. Is there an ability to do harm?
3. If it is still unclear, the school and police work together to determine if it’s an urgent and immediate threat or if it’s a person venting and behaving inappropriately but not imminent and real danger – essentially, is it a kid who is crying out for help or vocalizing a want to punish the world around him. That at worst is a pre-danger intervention stage. The school absolutely will be handling it as such, which the news is biasedly and intentionally not including in the story. It’s manufactured outrage.
These are 10 and 11 year olds that have no means to shoot up a school and are wishing someone else would do it. They are conversing about “if someone does, I hope it hurts X, Y, Z kid we don’t like”.
There is no intent to personally harm someone, there is no capability to shoot someone.
Lower Merion is an area with more money than sense often times. My sister teaches in the district. She hasn’t said anything about this story, but from everything she’s said about other things…these parents are obnoxious and litigious. This is absolutely a parent positioning a law suit against the school district for any and every way that they can and getting the press on their side. Horseshit like this is why teachers burn out.