11 year old arrested for stick figures arvada

[weirjf]

Yes, because by reading an article and watching news you are qualified to judge this kid. I have done the exact thing when I was young. I liked to blow stuffs up too.

It has been proven over and over again the best intervention on youths' behavior problems are through their parents and family members. This is why most child therapists play distance roll and encourage the parents to do 99% of the work. Scare tactic does not work.

My .02

He was asked to draw his feelings, his feelings were to take a gun and kill teachers. Behavior issues that can be solved by parents are generally caused by those parents in the first place; the crummy hands-off "let the system raise my kids" parenting we see all too often.

Their first reaction was correct; get the story and make sure everyone's kids and the staff are safe with this kid in the school. The follow-up of arresting him was NOT.

Sorry, if I have to choose between being cautious or assuming other people are being good parents... I'll choose caution because I see bad parents every day out in public.

[TFOGGER]

This guy would have overreacted and hauled him away in cuffs -



This guy would have gave him a ride home and talked to his folks -



We need more Andys and less Barneys IMO.

+100

It's a damn shame common sense is so uncommon...

[henpecked]

Gee I wonder why 9 news doesnt pick this story up???

[Byte Stryke]

I think the family should sue.
Hell, The Reyes Family is and I think this family has a better case

[sniper7]

huge waste of taxpayers $$ right there.

Kids say and do and draw stupid shit all the time in school.

I would have been in serious trouble for drawings in school.

I used to draw helicopters taking out entire villages (forget what movie it was from), jets blowing stuff up, you know...standard stuff for kids.

[Elhuero]

I used to draw a top down aerial view of my school.. in a bombsight.

[weirjf]

huge waste of taxpayers $$ right there.

Kids say and do and draw stupid shit all the time in school.

I would have been in serious trouble for drawings in school.

I used to draw helicopters taking out entire villages (forget what movie it was from), jets blowing stuff up, you know...standard stuff for kids.

so did I

but I never drew a picture that showed

me---> teachers ---->

If I have to choose between ensuring my kids' safety and bruising the fragile ego of a kid that is already in therapy because he has issues... guess what? Put the ego therapy on the therapist's tab!

getting the police involved was going too far but people need to be careful. When I was a kid I drew that stuff too but kids weren't going to school with guns and propane tanks meaning to slaughter everyone in the building either. There's a lot of people that haven't noticed how much things have changed with the past couple of generations.

[jdscott82]

I think something needed to be done but not to that extreme. Now who's to say the kid isn't even more pissed and follows through...not thinking rationally because of his condition?

[sniper7]

so did I

but I never drew a picture that showed

me---> teachers ---->

If I have to choose between ensuring my kids' safety and bruising the fragile ego of a kid that is already in therapy because he has issues... guess what? Put the ego therapy on the therapist's tab!

getting the police involved was going too far but people need to be careful. When I was a kid I drew that stuff too but kids weren't going to school with guns and propane tanks meaning to slaughter everyone in the building either. There's a lot of people that haven't noticed how much things have changed with the past couple of generations.

good point. it is just disappointing the police had to get involved when the kid was already in therapy.
he was out there getting help, his parents were on top of things, he was following directions of his therapist and yet the system still shit on him.

[Ed_S]

I'm not a big fan of the ADD label. Personally I think teachers should make lessons more interesting and parents should be more involved with their kids.

Too many parents these days are not parents they want to be 'friends' with their kids. I'm not talking about Victorian era beatings but teaching them common sense, responsibility and respect.

As for the cops, just stupid comes to mind.