I don't see anything in the article saying she was afraid to leave him home alone 8 months earlier.
He says she took her son with her to the gun range because, she said, she couldn't always leave him at home.
I don't see anything in the article saying she was afraid to leave him home alone 8 months earlier.
He says she took her son with her to the gun range because, she said, she couldn't always leave him at home.
Top 10 Myths About Mass Shootings ( link )
December 18, 2012, 2:42 pm
By James Alan Fox
Even before the death toll in last Fridays school massacre in Newtown, Conn., was determined, politicians, pundits, and professors of varied disciplines were all over the news, pushing their proposals for change. Some talked about the role of guns, others about mental-health services, and still more about the need for better security in schools and other public places. Whatever their agenda and the passion behind it, those advocates made certain explicit or implied assumptions about patterns in mass murder and the profile of the assailants. Unfortunately, those assumptions do not always align with the facts.
James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University and the author of Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool Through College (Praeger, 2010).
"Always" implies sometimes she left him alone and sometimes she didn't.
a trip to the gun range wasn't an overnight trip, afaik. I'm aghast she left him alone overnight if she was also considering institutionalizing him.
JMO
There is no evidence she was going to institutionalize him. I believe she was in deep denial over his issues, as evidenced by her presumably leaving him alone for days at a time, her teaching him to use deadly weapons, and her keeping these deadly weapons in the basement of her house.
What reason did the school have to intervene in Adam's case? If a parent withdraws a child there isn't anything a school can do about it under current laws. THAT is the biggest part of our current educational system that needs to be changed. If a parent withdraws a child to homeschool, the public educational system should still follow him to determine if such a move meets his needs and welfare.
JMO
There is no evidence she was going to institutionalize him. I believe she was in deep denial over his issues, as evidenced by her presumably leaving him alone for days at a time, her teaching him to use deadly weapons, and her keeping these deadly weapons in the basement of her house.
absolutely not. The school district is not a court, has no legislative or police powers (nor should they). They are responsible only for the children currently in their grasp, I mean enrolled.
I'm not sure what the answer is...but trying to make the school districts responsible is definitely not it. Government is seldom the answer to any problems.
Sorry you must have misunderstood my post. I realize he quit school when he was 16. What I would like to know--is this
Does anyone have a link that says they saw the killer in person in the last 2 years?
I would like to know who was the last person to see or talk to him alive. Besides NL of course.
School districts are already responsible. The school district is paid for by taxpayers and children do have a legal right to a public school education while they are minors. Public schools ARE a government entity.
This is simply not the job of a school district.If a parent withdraws a child to homeschool, the public educational system should still follow him to determine if such a move meets his needs and welfare.
Katydid, it's from a Batman movie. I think it was from Dark Knight Rises.I am way behind on this thread---but where is this big 'STRIKE' map coming from? Was this AL's map? Or someone else's?
School Districts are not responsible for home schooling students, unless they are home schooled through a school district. Here's a reference http://www.hslda.org/laws/
I am disagreeing with this statement from your earlier post This is simply not the job of a school district.
School districts are already responsible. The school district is paid for by taxpayers and children do have a legal right to a public school education while they are minors. Public schools ARE a government entity.
Jenny according to her good friends the owners of My Place Cafe, she did tell them she was planning to possibly take AL to Washington state to a school or center, those were his words..so from that conversation posters on this thread have reason to believe that was her intention