I could be convinced that extreme late term abortion
might not be that bad an idea.

I think "least restrictive environment" is fraught with flaws and actual danger, but if your parent has to be with you daily, you are not in the least restrictive environment but in one that is far too loose.

LOL not necessarily.  That school really is diverse, I think whites are the majority but barely.

Yeah I'm totally convinced that the family of a 6 year old  kid who came to class with a Taurus handgun and popped his teacher wrote that statement.

Definitely not written by a lawyer!

Is it strange that I wonder about the complexion of the family?

Kid should have been secured, not the gun.

"About 16 to 20 students were in the room at the time of the shooting.."

Do they not call roll or anything? Sounds like up to four kids may be in the hallway eating paint or busting up toilets in the bathrooms.

My late wife was a special ed teacher in for kids that got thrown out of "regular" special ed for over 20 years. And a special ed teacher in the Norfolk projects before we were married.  For a very few, the next stop after her class was a private contracted school for loons.  I've never heard of that either.

As to "the gun was secured".... obviously it wasn't.

Shouldn't even be there

When I was in elementary school I found a way to get into my dad's gun safe, which had a combination lock.  I waited until I knew he was going to have to get something out of there and then hid a camcorder under some clothes and hit record before he went to the safe.  The combo was visible on the recording.  I tried it and it worked.  I didn't take anything but just wanted to see if I could do it, plus I liked guns already and wanted to see them.  Technology has made this sort of thing easier to accomplish.  

Secured might also mean stored in a way that is accessible to adults but would be hard to access for children, although if so, it clearly proved not to be the case, although it is hard to keep something accessible for use and make it impossible for a child to access it.

“Legally purchased”. Why is the irrelevant legality always part of a gun story?  

Legally purchased
Law abiding
Registered

All dumb shit.

Quoted:

He had a 50/50 shot.

Taurus might why he only fired one shot.  That or he got stunned by the noise and an adult wrapped him up.  I would assume more than one adult in that kind of class room.

I'll admit, I grapple with the nature/nurture stuff. I adopted my 11 year old daughter when she was 2. Her unwed father died of od. Mom is in and out of jail for drugs. My daughter frequently had druggy strangers in her apartment at all hours or the night, or was sitting in her mom's car in a wee hours while mommy tried to score more drugs. All she ate was junk food. Swollen from all the sodium. The mom was on a court-ordered program during her gestation...weekly drug tests, so that part was okay. Mom had already surrendered 2 kids to the state by the time she was 21.

When the adoption was finalized (Fuck DCF) we began our journey. My baby was straight up feral. We would go at night to check on her in her crib and she reel to the corner.  She would always try to hoard food. There were bouts of self scratching and  early and often. It took a couple years before genuine trust set in and things smoothed out. Today, she is an absolute rockstar and the most loving, unselfish kid I know. She is not the black sheep at all and has a great relationship with the entire family. I know she's only 11 and could take an unexpected turn, but thus far, she's just awesome.

Its easy to understand why kids stuck in the system are lost forever.

And Fuck DCF.