Lists of South Bay graduates from 2009 published in the Daily Breeze showed Harper-Mercer graduated from the Switzer Learning Center in Torrance with four other students. Switzer teaches students with learning disabilities and emotional issues.
A former behavioral aide at Switzer, who did not want her name used, said the majority of the students at the school are from foster, low-income and single-parent homes. Some of these students were expelled from other schools or had been in trouble with the law.
The school is divided among special needs students and those with behavioral problems.
OK, this boy was on Psych meds to allow him to not be in a lockup facility, this is the Mental Health disaster no one if talking about.
Have a friend whose stepson has Psychotic issues unless he takes his meds. He is on OR (Own recognizance - I.e. not in a facility. His behavior got so strange when he stopped taking them the Canadian Government refuses to let him back in
By and large Psych meds are devastating and detoxing near impossible. Lots of potential Zombies to do ones bidding
Watch and See...
Hard to say for sure whether he was taking meds that made him do this or whether he was not receiving any care at all.
It seems that early on after a shooting, information comes out that the shooter was likely on mind-altering meds. It’s really sick that nothing is being done that will end that revenue bonanza for pharmaceutical companies.
What also bothers me from the portion of the article you referred to is that schools today are putting the emotionally disturbed and those with learning disabilities together. Especially in a small district. I’ve seen the sweetest little children that have trouble in math or say dyslexia put into the same class as the children that lash out, threaten people, swear, punch, all lumped into a “Special Ed” classroom. It’s not right and young children are impressionable when they see the way others act and in some cases are in danger.
PHSCHO taking DRUGS!!
We shut down the mental health facilities, and let them lose in the general public.