Connecticut Elementary School Shooting

[Achilles]

Really?

Media getting it wrong?

Speaking of them,
I really wish the media would stop using the suspect's name.
I also wish they would stop telling everybody what he did in every article regarding the topic. Does anybody live that far under a rock?

 

[ShannahQuilts]

What's truly disturbing to me is the calls for action after something like this always seem to ignore how we view and deal with mental illness in this country.

I agree. I know parents dealing with extremely difficult children who get little to no help from the community.

I live in a county with lots of services, and even with that, I learned very early to team up with other parents, and exchange information, so we'd all know enough to make the best choices for our children. Sometimes, that meant being willing to sue service providers (schools, in our case) to get the help our children deserved, and were legally entitled to.

Having navigated the maze, we are so exhausted with the process that it's burdensome to help newer parents. We do it anyway, because it's important, but it's hard.

If we didn't have each other to lean on, I don't know what we would do. Mrs. Lanza didn't seem to have much support at all.

 

[ThatPrivate]

I pray for the families of the victims and the first responder. This is truly a tragedy for everyone that is involved.