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Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby.

She rushed to the police station, where her son was already in custody, but the police did not release him. He was charged with inducing panic, a second-degree felony, and officials kept him in detention for 10 nights.

He is 10.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 41 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Where are they learning this behavior, I wonder?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.

Does the news even cover these anymore?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

SEND THEM TO THE CHILD MINES

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

The children yearn for the mines

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago

Please don't, we have enough. No need to excavate more.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Turns out the President of the United States is going to be a role model for American children whether we like it or not.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe school is the problem? Kids might not like being locked up for 8 hours a day in an underfunded cell with zero agency.

How Many More Shootings Before We Question Compulsory Schooling Itself?

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Bah.. schooling is good, apparently the way it is done isn't. Especially in the US militarizing everything... do something about the guns ffs.

But then immediately questioning compulsory schooling.

Is was made mandatory to avoid discussions with parents who would rather have the income from having their kids work a factory or a mine.

With the child labor laws under attack in the US, this is not a path you would want to go down. At least I think.

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 63 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's crazy to me a 10 yo has access to snapchat

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I was on IRC and BB’s by 10.

Being on SC talking to friends and classmates isn’t crazy to me, arresting a kid and holding him for 10 days is tho.

What’s really crazy is a society that lets guns proliferate through it to the point school shootings are common.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 17 points 2 days ago

no way to stop this says only country where ... yadda yadda you know the drill

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IRC took some effort to set up, and some patience with the internet back then. These modern methods like snapchat are easy mode

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

In my day we had to walk uphill both ways to get to the Internet. Darn kids don’t know how good they have it.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

He used his mom's phone..

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In senior year, my school district had 30+ bomb threats in one year. Every time we'd hear the loudspeaker ring, we'd just start grabbing our shit. They stopped telling people about them after a while because evacuating the kids once a week was a shitshow. Every threat was linked to a handful of kids who wanted attention or wanted to get out of tests/homework. I was out sick on the day the feds showed up and started arresting kids.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We got 4 or 5 a year before big tests when I was in high school in the 90s.

The funny part was that there was a pay phone outside the school but right by the main walkway everyone used to get into the school. I guarantee you the bomb threats were always called anonymously from that pay phone, almost in view of the office.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but as far as I know, they always got away with it. Just like the kids that pulled the fire alarm for the same reason.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The kids at my school didn't get away with it because social media and all that shit. This was also in 2014-2015, so tracking down whodunnit was exceptionally easy lol

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

5 or 6 here in Terre Haute, IN from both high schools and middle schools. We're not a small town, but we're not exactly a huge metropolis either. This is happening all over.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 26 points 3 days ago

Some dumbass at my kid's high school recently wrote on a bathroom wall, "Gonna shoot up the school on [date, three days from now]."

They figured out who it was, he's been charged with four felonies.

[–] WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow, small world. I'm in Terre Haute a couple times a year for business and will be out there again in a few weeks. I'm amazed it's a problem there too.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'm sorry to hear that.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

If "inducing panic" is a chargeable offence, I think I know an orange terrorist and his sidekick that need to spend a few nights in jail.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Alyse Ley, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Michigan State University and the director of a program aimed at preventing adolescent targeted violence, said that “behavior is a way of communicating” — and that it is the job of adults to figure out what students are trying to say.

Lately, she added, it seems that “kids are screaming out for help.”

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Kids will push the limits, school shootings are a thing, kids are going to joke/mull the concept of shootings like anything else.

I guess the plan is to increase school shootings and their prominence in people's minds, but also come down increasingly hard on anyone who happens to have it affect them the wrong way.

(The child must learn how to hide from shooters. It must wear bullet proof backpacks. It must hear about shootings all year, every year. It must never make light of this topic, or else.)