http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ohio-school-shooting-20120227,0,7049164.story So sad.
This is somewhat local to us. My teen is in PS and we had a call from the superintendent offering counseling for any student upset by this shooting. This is NOT the kind of community where you would expect something like this to happen. I was happy to have my two little ones at home today and wishing my teen was home too.
The news is showing that a second student has died as a result of his injuries... how heart breaking :cry:
I remember the day the Columbine shooting happened. I was on the phone with the principal of my daughter's school, making a complaint about a boy at school threatening to shoot my daughter and our whole family, including the new baby. She was very upset and scared to go to school. While I was listening to the principal assuring me that he knew this boy and knew that he would never do anything or even say the things my daughter was claiming, I watched children and teachers flee their school on my TV. Ironic, eh? After hearing the news yesterday, all I could do was thank God that we decided to pull our youngest from PS and teach her at home. There is hardly a day that the police aren't called to the local high school and middle school here. Last week a girl at the high school was arrested for threatening a teacher and shoving another teacher who stopped her from physically attacking the one she threatened. This is not the kind of thing I want my daughter to have to deal with on a daily basis. This is a small town where people think these things would never happen. The sad fact is that these things do happen in small towns, big cities, and rural areas.
This was down the road from us. My son starts tomorrow at home school. He's already home now. I'm done. I thought about this for years, but this was the last straw. My daughters friend Sara was sitting at the next table. There have been so many things that led up to my decision, but this one takes the cake. Hopefully, he'll enjoy being at home. I assume he will given that he was coming home with black eyes, a bruised jaw, welts...he's been beaten regularly by kids who think epilepsy is funny! I'm just done...sorry to rant...been a bad week.
How awful for you and your son, OhioMom. My daughter has epilepsy and Tourette's. Although she has never been physically hurt, she has dealt with people teasing her about seizures and ticcing, and telling her she can control her tics. The emotional damage this sort of thing does is horrible. I hope that everything works out for you and your son. I'm sure that not having to deal with the bullying will be wonderful for him.
Thank you Jenny, you too. It's awful how cruel kids can be to one another, simply to impress their friends! And in just the past couple of days (I pulled him out Friday, but we're not starting till tomorrow), he's already shown a big difference in his stress level just knowing he's done with ps.
That's how it was with my daughter, too. The stress level dropped and her mood improved. She still has moments but they are getting to be fewer and far between.
This is so sad and scary! It is happening way to much, and I sure do feel blessed to be a homeschooling family!
Hi It's a community where everyone knows everyone. Metal detectors and reinforced locks are for big cities, not small, quiet communities. No place, urban, suburban, or rural, is immune from violence bent on extracting a toll.
