Thread: What is this world coming to?

Reading my kids notes they sent home from school and they are going to have a lockdown drill within the next few weeks.

I get home and here this on the news:
A bomb threat elsewhere in the district and a knife brought to the middle school Friday prompted middle school administrators to set a meeting for Monday to talk about school safety.

The meeting, at 5:30 p.m. at the middle school, was announced in a letter sent home to parents Friday after the knife was found in a student’s locker.

The student’s parents and law enforcement were contacted, and the student was removed from school grounds, Principal Lisa Snyder wrote in the note.

This is at least the second incident in two months involving a middle school student. A plea hearing has been scheduled in juvenile court for a 12-year-old boy accused of injuring another student with a throwing star at a Sept. 22 high school football game.

Also Friday, students and staff at Holmen High School were evacuated for nearly four hours after a note was found about 9 a.m. in a girls’ restroom claiming a bomb had been planted in the building.

Students and staff were taken to the middle school gymnasium while the high school was searched, said Rick Johnson, district director of pupil services.

Members of the fire and police departments, the La Crosse County Bomb Squad and bomb-sniffing dogs from Fort McCoy assisted in the search, Johnson said. No explosive devices were found.

Then I get to work and my coworker told me that his neighbor's boy who was seven years old hung himself in his bedroom. SEVEN YEARS OLD!! I hope it wasn't because of the fact of being teased or something like that in school. Kids can be so mean to other kids. Whatever ever happened to the saying "Treat others the way you would like to be treated"? I teach my kids that.

I know all that is scary for you.It is for me also, even tho my kids are out of school. I think we have raised a bunch of kids that have no respect for anyone. It has been " Do what you want, what makes you feel good" I to taught my kids to treat others the way you would want to be treated. When most kids get into trouble Mom and Dad run to take care of it for them. They have to learn what my Daddy taught me "You make your bed, you must lie in it" Stand up and take what is comming to you. Now I am rambling, but kids today don't care about anyone, and sometimes not even about them self.

I am a firm believer that things like this start at home. If they have loving parents and a good home atmoshpere then i believe they are less likely to look other places for that "love" they think they need. With both parents having to work these days more than not then that leaves the kids to fend for themselves quite often.

It's lack of parenting and that's it.

Originally Posted by hblueeyes

This is not much different than the bomb attack drills from when I was a kid. The difference is who is making the attacks.

I also believe many of these kids are on certain types of prescribed meds as well as lack of supervision in the home. I also think some of these same kids are the result of years of bullying. Some kids withdraw, some kill themselves, some go beserk and attack. Bullying changes who you are and yet it seems that it is something schools do not take seriously enough.

Me

A lot of good points. Especially since peoples differnences in school make thema target for bullying.

Originally Posted by YNKYH8R

It's lack of parenting and that's it.

I totally agree.

I have a friend whose daughter goes to a horrble public school and who is always being targeted for about anything you can imagine being picked on about. She is forever going to the school asking for intervention, ususally gets it. But the fact is that the kids stop for a day or whatever but then pick on her even worse than before. I see changes in this girl especially over the last year and I hate to imagine what may happen to her. She is ALOT like my son in the sense she is very tenderhearted. And she really doesn't know what to do when someone is mean to her; she is just nice to everyone and then tries to follow what her mom and the teachers say to do in these situations but it doesn't seem to even slow the other kids down w/ their cruelty.

I may get blasted for this, but I tell her to try private school. They can't afford it she says, but can they afford NOT to, I say?!?! I send my son to private school for the same reason as she should...we live in a horrible public school district. If I had to flip burgers, I would; if I had to sign up for assistance at his school, I would. I know one family where the mother goes in to paint, clean, do whatever 'extra' work they have to have done all according to when her schedule allows, and her kids go to school there free plus get free busing. I am sure other schools do this too.

So, I guess with all the problems in the public schools today, we really need to think about priorities. And for my family, doing away with the extras to allow my son to go to Catholic school was what I seen as a priority. Other people may see differently, but it is a great option for some people and not nearly as unrealistic as some may think if you actually explore ways to get scholarships, volunteer, get assistance, etc etc.

Stacey =)