<div dir="ltr"><div>My advice: let her be. Or if you're too concerned<br>for her safety to let it go, tell the police all the<br>information you have - in particular, name the<br>witnesses - and let them handle it, then back off.<br>
<br></div><div>You do not have all the facts of the story, nor are<br>you in a position to render effective aid. Without<br>knowing anything more than what you have said,<br>I can promise you that much.<br><br></div><div>
This is one high school kid bullying another.<br></div><div>That happens all the time; even death threats<br></div><div>aren't front page national news. Further, even<br>if this did show up in the media as you are<br>
imagining, it would be disproportionate<br>retribution - and ironically could put the girl in<br>even more danger, from previously uninvolved<br>teens desperate for attention.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:45 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">ExI friends, I have an interesting crisis in which I would welcome any advice you may offer.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">A dear friend from a long time ago posted me yesterday saying her 15 yr old daughter was threatened at her high school by a boy she didn’t even know, who was just in her class. He explicitly threatened to shoot her in the back of the head, said he had a gun in his backpack. He is 16. The girl told her mother, who went to the principal, who tried to excuse the boy since he doesn’t understand the American way, being two months in the country from Egypt.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">As you might expect the 15 yr old girl is vigorously shunning the spotlight.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I advised her to go to the superintendent, and if he didn’t immediately react convincingly to go to the local news agencies. She posted back a few minutes ago saying Mohammad got a 3 day vacation from school. He offered an apology, but my friend’s family refused, requesting no contact at all, for they understand the difference between a threat and an insult.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There were at least two teenage witnesses whose stories match, and now at least three ranking school officials know about it. I just replied back saying it absolutely does not matter what she does at this point: this story has legs; the whole sordid affair is likely headed for the front page on both CNN and Fox, among others. Anyone here with children will get this immediately. There are too many elements in it that stir far too much marketable emotion to just go away quietly.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any and all advice welcome.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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