Not familiar with the site roots.com but, yes, there's many folks out there who feel you should stand for the anthem and they have their reasons, just as those who kneel, have their reasons for kneeling. Unless his parents are Nazi Sympathizers and were raising him to be a violent, white supremist, I see this as a kid, who, as you said, had maybe never had a real NO said to him.
I'm not sure what private school they sent the kids to but it read that
she didn't send the info to the principle til Sunday night. Christmas was Monday. The principle wouldn't have called the boy's family on Christmas Eve and read off an unconfirmed Twitter list, a parent had emailed him, and told them that the girl's mother called her son a "monster". I'd think he'd leave out that latter, period. He'd likely wait til the day after Christmas, or til they went back to school, to verify the Twitter accounts, and talked to both sets of parents, about any concerns.
They'd dated since June of this year, and it was over the summer that the girl had told her mother about how good he was in history, and brought up the Jews and WWII. This has been a long term relationship. They told her NO too, right at Christmas. She said she broke it off, and Mom was posting her quotes, about good men doing nothing, and there she sat, in love, and no bf. Someone let him in... j.s. No one screamed, Help, my ex bf is breaking in the window! I don't think she thought it would come to this but I see the daughter as rebelling too, they got caught together, he probably just reacted at getting caught. Seems he was very troubled and got hold of a firearm, it was just mere months before he'd be 18 and his parents couldn't make him do a thing then. She wasn't far from 18. I think they might have been gonna keep trying to see each other secretly, until they turned 18, and then maybe were gonna head out. They might have too, if the aunt and uncle hadn't heard noises.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...55031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.f4816dc87a90