Posted on 12/17/2012 11:01:45 AM PST by fungoking
The aunt of Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza said the shooter's mother pulled him out of Newtown's public school system because she was unhappy with the school district's plans for her son. Adam Lanza's mother Nancy, 52, was the first victim of his Friday shooting spree. Lanza shot Nancy in the face and then drove her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 20 students and six adults before taking his own life. Marsha Lanza, who is Adam's aunt and Nancy's ex-sister-in-law, called her former sister-in-law an "awesome ... giving person." She also told Evelyn Holmes of ABC-owned-and-operated station WLS in Chicago that Nancy had once been a classroom aide at the Sandy Hook school. Marsha, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake, said that Nancy had home-schooled Adam after pulling him out of the Newtown public school system. "She mentioned she wound up home-schooling him because she battled with the school district," said Marsha. She did not know when Adam had left school. According to former classmates, Adam had attended the local high school at least through part of 10th grade. Nancy Lanza divorced her husband Peter in 2009, when Adam was 17. p>
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Left him in public school too long. 10th grade = damage already done.
“Mothers of mentally ill sons often become obsessive and overprotective, and it sounds like that was her problem. “
That is very true! The biggest problem was when she introduced that mentally disturbed young man in the business of guns and shooting with guns. She was teaching him how to shoot with guns!
God help us all.
Nothing bizarre at all. The facts about the reason she took him out of school have been posted in several places, and I actually have experience working with the mentally ill. The defensiveness and misguided protective efforts (and state of denial) of some parents is well known.
She probably thought she was “ channeling his aggression” or something. That said, I’m sure he would have figured it out even lacking her assistance.
A child with developmental or personality disorders in the State of Connecticut receives a yearly IEP or Individualized Education Plan. The IEP is generally the product of the school psychologist, social worker and guidance counselor in conjunction with the teachers and administrators at the school. Goals and progress measurements are outlined in the IEP, and it is visited at least a couple of times each year in a conference setting with all the contributors, the parent(s) and a child advocate, if requested. It sounds to me as though the mother did not agree with the findings of the report, and pulled her son.
I thought I was clear that such a charge against home schoolers WOULDN'T be fair.
Never mind....
I had asperger kids over the years myself in school; that's one group of kids that usually can function if we make a place for them. Freepers should realize the vast majority of these kids are not dangerous and any one of us could have a child with aspergers too.
It's not silly to wish for the one thing that could have stopped the carnage and that is often blocked by the same idiots wishing for a thing that can never possibly be (like pie in the sky).
I think we should speak it live it and be beating everyone over the head with it 24/7/365. They're gnna’come for the guns now-and NOT legally. Himself is probably ginning up his “orders” now.
its very sad and he took so many innocents in his sickness
I have worked with more than two dozen students who were diagnosed with Autism and/or Asperger's. With the correct program to address their needs, most of them were as successful as their potential allowed. Some of them were quite bright (High Functioning Autism/Aspergers), but had significant social deficits. Most were able to be taught skills to overcome these deficits. NONE, and I emphasize NONE, were ever violent to the point of committing such a horrid act of terror as this shooter.
There was one case I worked on with a student (third grade at the time) who I have often worried about engaging in an act of violence of this type. He was identified as Emotionally Disturbed. At an early age he was torturing neighborhood pets, and tried to BBQ the family's cat when he was age 5. I lost track of him after he ended up in a non-public lock-down program. To this day I recall his name, and his face. I pray I do not read about him in the news.
0bama's assault on 'big oil' in his first term was bolstered by BP's oil rig explosion. GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
0bama's assault or 'gun grab' in his second term is bolstered by the murder of kids, using "assault weapons".. Want more? Okay, he was home schooled! GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
0bama's been doing what he does best on Benghazi.. RUN OUT THE CLOCK!! Hillary was due to TESTIFY THIS THURSDAY, DEC. 20TH ON BENGHAZI. Uh oh, she's had a concussion and now says she can't testify on doctor's orders.. GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
0bama's reign has been plagued by COINCIDENCES. One after another. At some point you need to rethink mocking those wearing tin foil hats. There's something going on that's far more sinister that VINDICATES WE TIN FOIL HAT WEARERS. That these are NOT coincidences, and are beyond statistical probability as well.
It was the stress of climate change, best to blame owlgore now. ( Me=so sick of looking for reasons to tear up the constitution that has kept us free until 2008, now? it’s fighting for its very life.)
The problem is when these incidents occur, the media goes on 24/7 blab-a-thon. So they will pump out pretty much anything they can find to fill up the hours. Accuracy is not a consideration at all.
And, that was obvious from just how much the media reported that was totally wrong in the first 24 to 36 hours after the event first broke. I am so totally disgusted by the liberal news hounds who are only out to get their names recognized, and care nothing about the victims or the families of the victims. I'm also angry at FOX for placing way too much emphasis on the shooter. Show is picture once, if you must. But, then, no more. Stop giving these fame seeking sociopaths so much glory.
After reading that article my first thought was is that the real reason he was pulled out or is it that the school can’t handle her son? Being autistic may mean he can do well in math (which he did), but he would not be able to do well in other subjects which was the case. Pushing someone at too young in age, according to development theory, is not a good thing. Nevertheless this child may just very well be strongly mentally ill. Someone who said they were a neighbor to that family said the younger one (when initial reports said the oldest one did it) was the one likely to commit such a crime.
I tutor kids one-on-one. There are moms whose kids are headed for a world of trouble but who will NOT see it. “I know he seems rude, but he has been very tired.” (Naw, he has a rude mouth; any parents on first?).
agree!!!
Israeli Schoolchildren murdered sorry there are NO You Tube videos of Israeli school children being terrorized BUT key on such and you will find all sorts of "pali" schoolchildren being terrorized by the IDF and more Israeli school children terrorized daily
Hutus vs Tutsi murders, mostly machetes
Rwanda schoolchildren murdered
Janet reno terrorized a Cubano kid, sent him packing
Janet reno kills 17 children .
< a href="http://youtu.be/5_rk3RP5KQs"> Progressive Roosevelt incarcerates japanese children
Heavens Gate, new tennis shoees cult
allah orders murder of children, but you won't find the poisonings and killings of children on You Tube
Rav Kook slaughter of children by al Fatah pali
Aftermath of SCarab spring in Egypt, Copts mainly>
Muslims murder 43,students,Boku Haren in Nigeria
Australian break ins and horrid crimes up since gun control instituted
Nigerian gunmen murder 26 in Nigeria
Has gun control worked in Australia? Snopes( biased me thinks) say yes, worked great. But crime continues to rise in Australia
All of the above can go on and on and on. This horrid, HORRID attack by a sick man killing so many innocent children is terrible in all ways. But please think if anyone can( I know FReepers are smart folks) what will happen, when our rights are remooved completely, then attackwatch.com, flag.gov will not be mocked it will have simply been a [premature idea but will be enforced if we do not counter this madness with logic and reason. Then again, look at logic and reason in the 1600 page,"You first have to vote on it before you can see it,"bill.
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