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DebG
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The youth of today
I am not going to go into deep detail because this happend in a LI school (suffolk) and I am not sure if there are privacy things or whatever.
My cousin is a teacher for 8th grade in a Suffolk public school (honor students). Over hte Holiday's I saw him and he told me a horrific story.
A boy in his 8th grade class turns to three female classmates and asks the girls if they will help him commit suicide.
They say yes, grab a pair of scissors right then and there and start slitting his wrists! When girl one doesn't do it deep enough girl 2 grabs scissors and does it harder, girl three gets another pair and works on the other arm.
What the....
I am scared for our youth.
How could this happen? How can 4 kids think this is ok and right? and the answer? The boy is in couseling hte girls expelled and a community is rocked.
I am just floored that this happened. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't hear it directly from the teacher (my relatives) mouth. This all happened in a matter of less than 5 minutes.
The youth of today, is this common? Is this extreme? Is this where our youth are going? It's just such a    story to me
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Wow, that is so horrifying. 
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:29 PM |
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MissJones
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Wow. It's so sad.
When I was student teaching, 7th grade, a boy tried to commit suicide. He failed, but imagine at 13 that is your only hope?
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:30 PM |
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Oh, what a terrible story... But I certainly wouldn't say it's common. As a high school teacher, I've never heard of anything like this happening. It seems like these are very troubled kids, all of them. And unfortunately, I don't think that kind of behavior is limited to kids. People do terrible, sad things all the time. I really hope this boy is ok...
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:31 PM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: The youth of today
Thats not not only attempted suicide. That is attempted homocide. An 8th grader should know right from wrong in a case like that. Expulsion is letting them off easy.
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:32 PM |
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DebG
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Posted by Goldi0218
Thats not not only attempted suicide. That is attempted homocide. An 8th grader should know right from wrong in a case like that. Expulsion is letting them off easy.
I don't know if there is more, as this just happened before the holiday break.
For all I know, there could be against the three girls.
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:33 PM |
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:35 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Posted by Goldi0218
Thats not not only attempted suicide. That is attempted homocide. An 8th grader should know right from wrong in a case like that. Expulsion is letting them off easy.
ITA.
There are still a lot of great kids out there. The student body at my friend's son orgainzed a fundraiser for him.
St. Baldrick's is around the corner & I'm going to see a ton of bald-headed teenagers walking around.
The high school by me still does fund-raising for ALS after 2 teachers came down with it.
While I don't know anyone that ever did that while I was younger, I do know kids that were truly horrible to each other. I'm not sure if it's changed so much.
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:37 PM |
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emilain
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What??!!!!! I don't believe this story, my Mom and I work very intensely with the school districts in both Nassau and Suffolk County, we are asked to do help address these issues in schools and do CID (critical incident debriefing) and we have not heard anything about this. I even called my Mom and she said the story must be a bit miscommunicated because ort network of people through out the area who would address this within the dist had not heard anything like this (and we hear about incidents less critical than this one).
Im definitely not saying your cousin is lying, but I wonder how the story changed as it got passed from one person to another.
I agree the youth of today are dramatic and have a sense of entitlement, there is no getting around that
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| Posted 1/3/08 10:50 PM |
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JenniferEver
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Its honestly really scary. I don't know if it's a alck of parent involvement or a generation of 9/11 scarred kds but there is something going on. My mom works in a school and comes home with real horror stories about the kids, even little little kids. Violence, threats, really vulgar or hateful things coming out of their mouths.
I teach religion to first graders and this is only a subset of a population,a subset whose parents are a) religious b) concerned with the relgiious upbriging of their kids, so theoretically these should be the "good" kids and their beahvior shocks me. Nothing like what you desribe.
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Posted by JenniferEver
Its honestly really scary. I don't know if it's a alck of parent involvement or a generation of 9/11 scarred kds but there is something going on. My mom works in a school and comes home with real horror stories about the kids, even little little kids. Violence, threats, really vulgar or hateful things coming out of their mouths.
I'm going to vote it's the media - in particular video games - to those kids being desensitized toward violence ---and since parents tend to park their kids in front of video games, the main reason is lack of parent involvement.
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| Posted 1/3/08 11:13 PM |
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Thats truly insane...
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| Posted 1/3/08 11:18 PM |
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JustJack
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All three of them obviously have SERIOUS pychological problems that needs to be addressed immediatly.
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| Posted 1/4/08 12:19 AM |
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DebG
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Posted by emilain
What??!!!!! I don't believe this story, my Mom and I work very intensely with the school districts in both Nassau and Suffolk County, we are asked to do help address these issues in schools and do CID (critical incident debriefing) and we have not heard anything about this. I even called my Mom and she said the story must be a bit miscommunicated because ort network of people through out the area who would address this within the dist had not heard anything like this (and we hear about incidents less critical than this one).
Im definitely not saying your cousin is lying, but I wonder how the story changed as it got passed from one person to another.
I agree the youth of today are dramatic and have a sense of entitlement, there is no getting around that
I don't know how your job works or how the NY state system works. This is not a game of telephone. This came from my cousin from HIS classroom. HE was there, HE witnessed it. The blood was on his skina d his clothes.
Not somewhere in his school or in his district. In HIS classroom.
I can call tomorrow evening and get any and all specifics that you want/need.
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