Better not be on any other website then. 🤡

Yes restorative justice caused this and not lack of gun control

The fact that school (not high school) is such an unbearable experience is the problem. I was telling my wife how crazy it is that if you let your parents tell you about school when they went, and ask your kids about school now... even though allllll these decades have passed... it's the same.

It's like we can't do basic science. School is a prison. Are prisons violent?

weird.

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> … he was under a school safety plan requiring him to undergo daily pat down searches upon entering the school.

If there is that much of a concern just expel the kid and get it over with. Some troubled kids can’t be saved.

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Except they’re charging for ass, grass and gas. At least a hitchhiker gets to pick just one.

Hell, there was an alternative school or two down in Canon City back when I lived there, and that was in the 90s-2000s.

There's no way they don't have at least ONE alternative school in Denver.

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No guilt and no shame,. most likely. They've got no trouble sleeping soundly at night, which does a lot in the stress department.

Thanks for the links. This looks like a fairly decent organization.

Again, I'm all for cutting down on gun violence and specially suicide I'm just not sure what public policy would be effective.

Yeah I mean I think I could make it work but I am not walking in those shoes. Many of these would be nicer if it was more like, hey man if you want to save a bit try this. Rather than, you sound lazy do this.

this. can also do a forever soup and then have a rice cooker and make the rice in the broth with some veggies and lentils (which will cook just fine with the rice due to the size)

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The latter requires an educational lawyer to act on behalf of the school, which the school will again avoid at all costs especially if the parent or guardian is not on board and/or is actively being a roadblock to proper placement which is not uncommon. You will go there pending proper paperwork.

> you are frisked and treated like a criminal every day

There is no universe in which a kid gets to continue attending school in-person after bringing a weapon in, and constant searches aren't required as a condition of that impressive display of societal willingness to not just immediately crumple an objectively dangerous-to-other-kids child up and throw them away.

is the user in the US that apartment sounds like a london special.

It's a 17 year old kid who was obviously very troubled with no guidance from those tasked to raise him and you just want him to kill himself instead of getting the help he truly needed. This is why we have a problem in this country; we don't want to help people, we just want them to go away so we don't have to deal with them. It's just such a gross way of thinking that it's shocking to see it written out and then up voted by others.

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Not the person you replied to, but IIRC "Columbine changed everything" generally means "raised widespread public awareness" for what had always happened occasionally and then vastly increased in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and then expanded again in the 2000s. There was a brief lull in the late-90s and then Columbine took place on April 20, 1999 ushering in the present epidemic of school shootings.

Others have correctly pointed out that while there was often school violence, mass school shootings were far rarer in the 1960s and 70s even though firearms were much easier to obtain then, and poverty rates were worse than today.

Many things changed in America since that time and no one knows if there was one cause or many. But it's interesting that the 1980s saw the birth of the internet, while the 1990s saw the first widespread social media. This same period also saw an enormous increase in psychiatric drugs prescribed for school children. The early 1980s also saw the infamous crack epidemic which fostered the explosive spread of modern gang culture.

Much later, President GHW Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, which has caused so many schools to end expulsions for behavioral problems (and to lower educational standards for test scores). Many educators discuss the negative impact of NCLB over on r/teachers. But there are probably other factors equally significant as all these; we only know that kids snap more violently and resort to guns more quickly now than they did two generations ago.

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s the United States saw a sharp increase in gun and gun violence in the schools. According to a survey conducted by The Harvard School of Public Health "15% said that they had carried a handgun on their person in the past 30 days, and 4% said that they had taken a handgun to school in the past year." a sharp increase from just five years earlier. By 1993, the United States saw some of the most violent time is school shooting incidences. ... (then) the late 1990s started to see a major reduction in gun related school violence, but was still plagued with multiple victim shootings.

https://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-united-states

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You can absolutely suspend students with IEPs and 504s for more than ten days. You are required to hold a manifestation hearing and a superintendents hearing prior to giving more than ten. Purpose of the meetings is to prove, one way or the other, if the actions were a result of their disability and if the accommodations/modifications/programs outline in the IEP/504 have been adequately provided.

Source: Am special education teacher, have sat in on several of these meetings, had a student removed from school for the remainder of the year after making a threat in September.

Jeremy, poor kid

Canada having conservative people that don't like the Liberal Party is the result of US politics, and you need to declare this to "non-Canadians not aware"?

Sounds like you're the one mired in hateful, the-other-side-is-evil, American-style rhetoric. Give your head a shake.