Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown has unintended consequences.
How idiotic. You don’t arrest middle-schoolers for this kind of stuff. What you do is give them detention and make them write an essay on why it was a dumb idea and how they’ll never do it again. Arresting them just traumatizes them. It doesn’t make the school and students any safer, and it provides no deterrent to real threats against schools. It’s just a huge waste of time and money.
Uh, no, you don’t do anything to them because this is clearly an expression of free speech reflecting the environment these kids live in, and clearly not a threat towards anyone whatsoever.
The only thing we need to do in response is fix the environment we’ve created where children think of school shootings so casually that they would make something like this.
How idiotic. You don’t arrest middle-schoolers for this kind of stuff. What you do is give them detention and make them write an essay on why it was a dumb idea and how they’ll never do it again. Arresting them just traumatizes them. It doesn’t make the school and students any safer, and it provides no deterrent to real threats against schools. It’s just a huge waste of time and money.
Uh, no, you don’t do anything to them because this is clearly an expression of free speech reflecting the environment these kids live in, and clearly not a threat towards anyone whatsoever.
The only thing we need to do in response is fix the environment we’ve created where children think of school shootings so casually that they would make something like this.
Good luck with that in a zero tolerance environment like the US
Thank you!!!
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