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To: saganite

This kind of issue?

My son was threatened on Facebook with murder in very graphic details (as in, how they would do it and how they would dispose of the body). In addition, there were humiliating taunts. My son is in high school, but is shy and the “new kid in school.”

We went to the police who would do nothing. We went to the school and they said “Boys will be boys” and the father of the poster is a prominent attorney and “nice guy.”

Should I go the parents’ house to speak with them? Suppose he feels “threatened” and shoots me? My point is that the police and school will not respond to death threats and I will face criminal trespass charges if I confront the parents (or worse).

Of course, we will end up withdrawing our son and home schooling him. But our society has deteriorated to the point where teenagers can taunt, humiliate and try to drive a kid to suicide, yet the parents just have to stand and take it. In other words, the perps get away with it and my son has to quit school.

My wife wanted him to be home schooled anyway. But it was the school’s “Boys will be boys” that really pi$$ed me off.


17 posted on 12/24/2010 8:46:57 AM PST by Squidster
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To: Squidster

And no, he is not gay if that is what some of you are thinking.


18 posted on 12/24/2010 8:50:21 AM PST by Squidster
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To: Squidster

I think a phone call to the boys parents is in order. Offer to show them a screen shot if they have a problem believing it. I know I would want to know if my kid pulled a stunt like that.


80 posted on 12/24/2010 12:47:05 PM PST by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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