New court documents show the pupil confessed to the attack and outline how he took his mother's gun.
  • Lemmylaugh@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    2 years ago

    Is suing the school the right approach? Wouldn’t lack of funding be partly the cause of how the school was unable to prevent this in the first place?

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      It’s a public school so payout will come from the taxpayers and not the budget for school. And the issue is not that they couldn’t prevent it, she reported the aggresive behaviour earlier in the day before being shot, but was ignored.

    • hypelightfly@lemmy.world
      141·
      2 years ago

      For this specific case, yes to the first question, no to the second question.

      Admin refusing to do anything about a kid with a gun after being told a kid has a gun isn’t a funding problem.

    • Alue42@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      If I remember correctly about this incident, it wasn’t only that the school was warned about the child’s behavior from previous incidents and from earlier that day and it had been ignored, as you have already received a comment about, but I believe the mother also called the school to tell them her gun was missing and she believed the child had it and they didn’t do a thorough enough search for it - I believe they only looked in his backpack and not in his desk or jacket, etc.

  • crow@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This kid is dead at 9, I’m calling it now. There will be a police shootout with a 9 year old. This where we’re heading.

  • TheSambassador@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Real question… Why is this kind of thing posted to World News? It’s a horrifying story, but it’s also one incident in one location. Me knowing about it doesn’t help me or anyone else in any way. I guess you could hope that it inspires some gun owners to better secure their firearms, but that’s about it.

    This kinda one-off incidents were all over Reddit. It just exists to stoke people’s anger most of the time, but it’s also super easy to push a specific agenda by posting these horrible, local stories.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Mostly it’s a result of me cross-posting from my own community which is less strict about what I consider news and the publisher in this case BBC labeling it as world news. I get all my news from RSS.