School massacre plot foiled

[Peaches]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 13 2003, 01:05 PM
Where are the parents???

I think parents should be prosecuted as well..... IF Parents are not going to hold their children responsible and be invovled in their lives - then they should be punished for actions of their out of control children!

Uh, Michael - kids are with their parents (especially at that age) maybe 4 waking hours a day, and the rest of the time they're either at school, sporting events, with their friends, etc. If you think you're going to know what's going on your kid's head when they're teenagers, you're in for a rude awakening

Remember the kid out west that killed his parents a few years? Every single person they interviewed said his parents went out of their way to be good parents to him - he was just a troubled child. There's nature and nurture and sometimes nurture can't change the nature

There ARE certain things to hold parents responsible for - truancy, if it's proven the parents ARE aware and aren't doing something, if the parents are letting the kids drink/do drugs in the house, etc. but you can't unilaterally say the parents are responsible for the actions of the kids.

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