I’ve been doing some digging on the kid....and the incident at the school. Imo we have a kid that had “typical” 15 yr. old emotions rolling from his girlfriend ditching him, got into a fight with a guy apparently he felt threatened by attracted to his girlfriend....and got kicked off the team for punching him.
Doesn’t appear he was handling his emotions throughout these events...his facebook entries attest to that...though you can’t really tell who he was talking to.
I have a feeling the kids shot were his girlfriend and the other kid...and any who were standing with them were so called collateral damage from his otherwise intentions.
The kids at school knew he was having difficulty accepting the breakup...and I do believe he was probably the ‘good kid” most said about him....he just let his emotions get the best of him and went on his rampage.
Sad, very, this happened...but kids today do not handle emotional events as were once taught how to.....they have not learned how to cope as other generations have. ..and too many parents are ‘unavailable’ when kids need the help to sort through things.
“Sad, very, this happened...but kids today do not handle emotional events as were once taught how to.....they have not learned how to cope as other generations have. ..and too many parents are ‘unavailable’ when kids need the help to sort through things.”
We try to keep up the conversations with our kids. But who knows? I was fairly close to my parents, but never talked with them about stuff like our kids do with us.
As I guy I would have thoughts of hurting others (bullies) or myself (nobody likes me). Never did - I knew I would get in a LOT of trouble if I ever killed myself! Funny too - all the guns in our house were kept in the open display in my bedroom. (I never even thought of using one of them to get back at a bully.)
We DID have suicides in high school - and my college. Not to put the blame entirely on Hollywood, but I do wonder if the violence in movies, video games, etc. gets the more violent ideas of revenge ideas into a kid’s head now more than when I was a kid.
Back in the day, we had shotguns in our pickups out in the school parking lot and carried knives and Skoal in class and no one thought a thing about it. If you had a problem with a girlfriend, you dumped her or punched the guy who was flirting with her and dumped her anyway and put on your big boy pants. No one was kicked off the football team for what happened off the field. No one shot up the school.
It seems like this kid had a dad in his life and lots of family support. But something is missing in today’s kids.