Word: colorado
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...wake of the tragedy last month in Colorado, students are finding themselves watched more closely than ever, and nowhere is that scrutiny more oppressive than online. Now the ACLU has announced that it will represent a group of students from an Ohio high school who were suspended and threatened with expulsion for creating a Goth-themed Web site...
...arrested after boasting about plans to blow up their school on graduation day. The students insisted they were just joking. Authorities slapped them with conspiracy charges nevertheless. Schools in Hillsborough, N.J., were shut down for a day when students received e-mail warnings, "If you think what happened in Colorado was bad, wait until you see what happens in Hillsborough Middle School on Friday." In Bakersfield, Calif., authorities yanked a 13-year-old boy out of school after his classmates spotted him loading a .40-cal. handgun. He had a hit list of 30 names with "they deserved...
...acceptance, but in America there is a sixth: litigation. Just days after the Columbine shootings, the father of Isaiah Shoels, a slain 18-year-old, made a call to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, famous for defending Jack Kevorkian, about representing his family. No suits have been filed yet, and Colorado bars lawyers from soliciting clients for 30 days after an incident. But it is probable that a wave of lawsuits is coming from the victims' families and from those injured in the shootings. What is less certain is what good they will...
...school district is another possibility, if it is shown that Columbine High officials ignored signs that Harris and Klebold were a threat. Among those warning signals: a videotape the two boys made simulating a school bloodbath; and some verbal threats made by Harris. Yet even if the school blundered, Colorado gives the government immunity except in rare cases...
...their mental health. If we knew a child had a broken arm, we would take that child to an emergency room. And if we know a child is depressed or alienated, we need to take emergency action and stay involved with the problem. One of the young killers in Colorado is reported to have once been prescribed an antidepressant, but we don't know if he had stopped taking it or what other kind of treatment he might have been receiving...