Posted on 02/17/2015 8:17:49 AM PST by __rvx86
HARRISON, Mont. — After Spencer Ore was banned from a Montana high school in 2013 for bringing two pistols to campus and was accused of making threats, his parents sought help with the hope that one day he'd reintegrate into society.
Margaret and Stephen Ore visited him every weekend while he was in juvenile detention. They invested in nearly two years of treatment for underlying behavioral problems.
When his doctors and probation officers said Spencer, now 16, was well enough to return to public school, the Ores moved across the state to enroll him at a school in quiet, rural Twin Bridges.
But last month, parents at Twin Bridges discovered Spencer's past and successfully sued to block him from attending the school, a rejection that left the Ores wondering whether a boy like theirs can get a second chance to get an education in an age of school shootings.
"We were just hoping that he could be accepted into that community and have a chance to be a regular kid," his mother said.
For the 31 parents and grandparents who sued, it's a risk they are not prepared to take.
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"I'd like to go back to school, hang out with other kids my age," Spencer said, shrugging slightly in his plaid button-down. "I just want to be a normal kid again."
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The world needs ditch diggers. Some one give him a shovel.
While you and I would not want this kid in MY kid’s school, EVERY court in the nation would shrug and say; “Too bad”.
A free public education is a free public education.
And rock splitters.
Yes, the kid is screwed up. I am pleased the parents are trying to help their son - this is a damn good thing.
Somebody play Town Without Pity for him!
Give the student a real chance at a good and productive life - Home School him!
He was sent back in January of 2014 when he threatened to blow up the school. If... and I emphasize the word “IF”.. he is truly on the road of being normal... he should get his GED. Once he has that.. he can go off to college and become a forest ranger like he plans.
A few *days* before Ted Bundy was executed,as he was telling investigators about *dozens* of murders he had committed,his mother was telling an interviewer what a good boy he was.
"There was no one set plan," Spencer said. "It was just a bunch of racing thoughts running through my head."
Why do I sense we'll see this name again sometime down the road.
Apparently one court agreed with the school and rescinded the order requiring them to take him. That may have been because the troubled kid’s parents didn’t fight it but at least there was some recognition of the rights of everybody else not to have to live in fear.
To your point I bet if the troubled kid’s parents sue they will be able to force the school district to pay for private tutors.
I’m afraid that for this poor soul HS is just the first rejection among many. He is doing to have to learn to not just reform but be exceptionally saintly. I sure hope he doesn’t backslide into anything and ruin the small chance he has.
Homeschool and then self employment. He could be a great painter or something. I would watch him real close if I hired him to paint my house though.
Choices have consequences don’t we all know
In this day and age, I’d think one could get a diploma online.
Teen kills students after getting approvel from doctors and parents to return to school
"But he got help, he was getting his life together. It's society's fault"~parents of crazy kid
I think a good tool to reduce crime; could be banishment; depending on the crime; after conviction and time served; banishment from city, county, state could go into effect, violation would lead to immediate imprisonment without trial or much like what would happen to a parole violator.
Just a thought that would need to be researched as to the details; but it has been used in the past; ridicule and banishment have been know to be effective deterrents.
He’s a liability.
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