Arkay
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MOO there are many alienated teens who would like or do draw creepy things. They need a real rule, draw creepy threatening things in school, get suspended
I agree, but the flip side of that is this---once that rule is on the books, they learn not to draw and not to tell anyone. They keep it all inside. Those are the ones you just never see coming.
In a way it's like stopping terrorist attacks. There are so many measures in place, like taking off our shoes on a plane because of the shoe bomber in 2001; but the really crafty ones give no indication, have a plan that LE hasn't imagined, and then there's an attack.
At parent-teacher conferences we always had student monitors to sign in the parents and do other little chores. It's considered an honor and the students are so proud to be chosen. Decades ago, one of my monitors was this very wonderful, smart, nerdy young teen. Honor roll, wonderful home life, sweet boy. Ten or 15 years later, I forget exactly when, he was part of a group of 20-somethings on a cruise ship. They were involved in the disappearance of the husband of a honeymooning couple on that ship.
Sometimes you just don't know.
I do agree there should be a rule, and in my school anything like that goes up the chain to administration. I've turned in violent drawings and writings myself. But again, sometimes the kids will outsmart everyone by completely suppressing every indicator.
It's painful. In this case I do agree that enough was known and Ethan should have been escorted off the premises by either LE, or in an ambulance to a pysch eval. And absolutely his belongings should have been searched by security or LE.
MOO