Its scary huh? This is absolutely awful the way they try to cover things up!

I HAVE A SON THAT GOES TO CLARK AND HE WAS HURT AT A BASEBALL GAME MONDAY NIGHT AND COULDN’T GO TO SCHOOL TUESDAY AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HEARD ABOUT THIS… THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR MY SON HAS BEEN AT CLARK AND HE BEGGS HIS MOTHER AND I ALL THE TIME TO TAKE HIM OUT OF THAT SCHOOL BECAUSE THERES THINGS GOING ON THERE THAT THEY DONT NOTIFY ANYONE ON…  I KNOW ALOT OF HIS FRIENDS ARE LEAVING THE SCHOOL THIS YEAR…..I HAVE CALLED THE SCHOOL BOARD PLENTY OF TIMES CONCERNING THINGS AT CLARK BUT THEY WILL NOT RETURN YOUR CALLS…

I realized that we have a right to free speech and I know that the media attempts to get everyone’s story but I think it provides an avenue for rumors and falsehoods that lead the general public in many directions. We as a community can only make decisions that are best for all children if we are informed with the correct facts.  We also should conduct ourselves in a way that provides good role models for our children in public, at home and in this forum.

I am a mother of a child at Clark. I know that the gun being brought to school is terrifying. I want to say Clark is a good school. There has been other problems that do not get attention. They say to tell of suspicious acts or threats. My child told a teacher when another child took his belt off and hit my child over 40 times. The other child recieved a detention check for horseplaying. It took an hour later for my childs next period teacher to do something. it then toook two days before the other child was suspended. The teacher or the school never contacted me about what had happened. My child didn’t even tell me. I just walked into school the next day and was told I needed to go talk to the vice principal about what had happened. I asked what happened. Then I was told about what happened. That was a full day later. The school doesn’t notify parents about things until they need to. If i would not have went in the next day I don’t know if I would had been told at all.

I agree 100%

However, it is a little troubling that a parent would try to minimize the severity of this situation and use the old standard that he is not the only kid at that school with a loaded gun; he is just the one that got caught. 

That is what i was trying to say thanks bamabob and motherof3 i understand the point you were making also… i am very upset about this being too close for comfort and it getting downplayed.

So, this was just show-n-tell gone haywire, huh?

Again, I have gotten the story and his act was directed at no one. I am not dismissing it. It is a very serious thing and he will pay. You are apparently only reading what you choose and not everything I am telling. He will have an evaluation and will not get away with this. Why are you so anxious to make him out to be a monster? You don’t know him. He made a mistake, a serious one. That doesnt make him some demented psycho!!!

No one is suggesting that a parent should turn their back on any of their children, but this situation can’t be ignored either.  He put a lot of people in danger merely by bringing the gun to the school.  As a parent you need to get to the bottom of the story and not just dismiss it as a boyish prank.

What possessed him to steal this gun and take it to the school, knowing the risk of doing so?  I would not be quiet as willing to except that this was a foolish prank.  I would want to know if he has been having problems with any other students in the school.  This could very well be a sign of something much deeper that you have not noticed.

Do you not think that one the one visit I have had with my incarcerated child that I have not voiced my disappointment? As you do not know me or anything about me, let me clue you in. I am a very outspoken person, and I am very firm with my children. You can be sure is aware of my feelings, and his room will no longer be private, he will have no privacy.  While I am furious at his unacceptable behavior, I am still his mother. I carried him, gave birth to him and have loved and cared for him for 14+ years. I am heart broken. I can’t function because all I can think of is my baby in hand cuffs, my baby in jail. Yes, my heart goes out to any of you who feel your child was endanger, and while it may be no consolation to you, I can assure you there was no danger. Just a stupid, boyish lack of judgement. But would you be able to turn your back on your child? Would you be able to sit back and listen to people say things that are just not true about your family?