Whether backed by intention, need for attention, or a sick sense of humor, this student needed to understand the seriousness of his actions and get the help and direction he needed. Our young people need to learn rules, boundaries, limitations, consequences and respect. Nice job...SFSD and LTPD!!

Your last statement is right on target. "Our young people need to learn rules, boundaries, limitations, consequences and RESPECT"!. Not enough parents take a role in teaching these important things. Too often the parents turn a blind eye and the kids are left to do what they want. People step up and take responsibility for YOUR kids.

As a parent of a child at the school I hope and pray this child is not allowed back into the school system after evaluated. He needs to be placed from this point forward in an alternative schooling for troubled kids.

I kind of disagree putting him in an alternative school around other troubled kids can be counterproductive ....if he is deemed to dangerous than i agree ...it is possible that this is an isolated incident and the arrest and subsequent psychiatric evaluation may wake him up.....

One of the most aggrivating issues these days is the WITHHOLDING OF INFORMATION. How could anyone formulate an educated opinion on this kids behavior without knowing exactly what he said or did!?! Terrorist threats? What did he say? This use of "terrorist threats" has taken on a life of it's own. Let's start with resopnsible adults telling the facts and the truth.
Steve Reinhart

If professionals in charge at the District and professionals at Horsham Clinic determined that his threats were either "terroristic" or inappropriate, that is good enough for me! The sad reality is that too many adults make excuses for the inappropriate behaviors of children, theirs or someone else's, rather than following through with consequences for poor choices in words and actions. For example, if a child, teenager, or adult threatens to "blow up" people, places, or things, it is safer to take the treat seriously, rather than to ignore it. Too often we seem to find out, in retrospect after these horrific events, that threats were made and that, in fact, the individual DID mean it!

We seem to be living in an "entitlement" world, in which lack of respect runs rampant...both in children and adults. If lessons aren't being taught in the home, children still need to learn that choices have consequences! If nothing else, this particular student needs to learn that threatening any adult is disrespectful...especially in light of recent events. NOTHING beats "tough love."

I'm interested to hear what our readers think about "zero tolerance" policies. In light of tragedies like Sandy Hook and Columbine, is zero tolerance the best policy? Should zero tolerance apply to all potentially threatening behavior?

There have been stories of kids being suspended from school for honestly nonthreatening mistakes, like bringing a plastic butter knife in their lunch bag and getting punished because the policy says "nothing resembling a knife". Should those kids be punished the same way as a student who makes a specific threat of harm?

I realize this grossly oversimplifies the subject, but tell me what you think.

The disrespect by Spring Ford high school students can be seen everyday in front of the 7-11. They have no regard for anyone. I have sat in traffic (as I work down the road from the high school) and watched them block the driveway of the doctors office when elderly people are trying to get in and out of the driveway. They smoke and curse and throw trash everywhere. Obviously there are no manners and there is no respect for others taught at home.

Howdy, neighbor. Do you know the kid? Do you know his family? Have you extended a hand or tried to help them in any way? Or is it simply easier to excommunicate all the people who contaminate your little paradise?

Too bad school administrators aren't as vigilant about students threatening the lives of other students. When a student is told he will be killed if he tells anyone about being bullied, I can't believe that peer counselors, teachers and others could totally miss something like that taking place on a daily basis right under their noses.

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