Quote Originally Posted by MB888 View Post
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.