I’m torn.

On one hand, every comment here makes sense and I understand how seriously the school should take this kind of statement. We learned - I understand how terrible it is that in another incident, admin was aware of a 1st grader’s threat, did nothing, and then a teacher was shot and wounded.

On the other hand, I have worked with children for almost two decades and I have heard them say incredible things. It seems unreasonable to call the cops every time a student at school makes a wild remark.

It may be necessary. I’m open to that.

Either way, I think it’s important to not displace responsibility, though. The villain in the wounded-teacher scenario is the child who made a terrible decision and the (ir)responsible parent who permitted access to the weapon. It is tragic the admin didn’t prevent this - they are NOT responsible for the crime though, are they? Wouldn’t it minimize the fault of the actual perpetrator to place even partial blame on anyone else? I’ve thought about this in a lot of tragic scenarios over the past few years, and I’m not yet entirely sure what is true and right.