Ok how do you report it

Now most of the time, you guys educate me on all kinds of things I"ve yet to fully understand. I offer my point as an attempt to "pay back" some debt.

In today"s world, lawsuits for everything, I think that the appropriate response would include a conversation with the building Principal, outlining both the gun carrying and the tip-off. Tone of the conversation would probably be best held with a concern for the students tone. If you feel as if you are getting brushed off, drop out that your secondary concern is for the school itself, and the loss of time to lawsuits, which could be spent working on education. I don"t mean to say throwing out the lawsuit card is the answer, but with the No Child Left Behind act, educators are seriously focusing on the best results for effort expended aspect of their days.

I am an administrator in a Jr. Sr. High school. We are concerned about these things, and with a serious report, we can search. We cannot search without just cause. We normally do this without revealing sources. We also have a large body of student hunters, and the deal is this - if you forget and bring your gun to school, tell us, we will return it to parents, and we all go about our lives. If we discover a gun, it is an automatic one year school district expulsion, with charges being brought.

I think most administrators are level headed, and want to stem problems at the lowest level possible. If this doesn"t work, I would skip the rest of the educators, and go to your state representative with the same conversation.

Good luck on a tough issue.

Bill

I'm guessing they think they are all that --as the kids say nowdays. Seems you and your son are on a good page for him to tell you that information. What is his gutt feeling as well as his friends? I sure hope you inform your son on what we all think he is a good kid for letting a parent know what is going down.

For crap sake you don't have a option, what the heck are you wasting time on this board when you should contact someone. There has to be a decent cop somewhere. And if the boys are trying to be cool, get them busted. We know the type and we don't need them, we just tolerate that type for some reason.

I don't know you other than this board, and you seems to me you are well respected as a decent guy. So I will assume you have contacted someone by now anyway. Did you consider a note to the local radio station? They can put alot of heat on the school staff as well as the cops.

Do something! Did you happen to notice no one said keep it very much to yourself? Seems there must be majority think like you did before you posted in the first place. Although it could be very harmless, what if? At least try to do what you can, you will feel better.

Times have changed so here is what I would say,, if you don"t want to call My from a pay phone, go to wal mart and get a $20 throw away cell phone and call state police. Can"t remember how old your son is, if he is still in high school call your school board member or send them a letter.

I know why you don"t want your name on any of this. My county is pretty bad about this stuff. If you call in a pot patch or meth lab you get pulled over every time you go to town if you know what I mean.

Good luck, do something even if it"s wrong.

Dave

My son attends Michigan State and every time I hear about a campus shooting, I get more concerned. Any nut-job could flip out at any time: mad at prof who failed him, girl troubles, etc. We all dealt with our problems without guns.

I remember a kid I served in Viet Nam with. Nice guy...until he bought a .45. He became Cowboy Copus--we worked on base not out in the field. Waving it around in a bunker while we were on red alert did it for me. I told him what a hot dog he had become and I didn't want to be near him when he had that pistool. A few days later he sold it. Nice guy again.

Somehow, make the police department/school aware of what's going on. Just make sure you have all the facts in this sue-happy society.

Larry

Close this area ever came was back in the early 90's at a council meeting, sum nut came in pulled a gun and said he was gonna kill some council members. Two council members pulled there own guns out and told him to drop it or he was leaving in a body bag. He dropped the gun and tragedy averted. Those council members were held as hero's until sum nut job, who moved to the area from New York, got to running his mouth saying he was scared of the two council members, " who knows they could get upset with a person's comments and shoot them at a meeting". was his exact words. needless to say those two members didnt get re-elected the following year. Made me and a lot of other people sick after the election result.

I would use a pay phone, wear gloves, talk through a towell, call the police barracks or station in the school's area and express your thoughts, remind them that you are a TAXPAYER and you pay their salary.

That officer should be suspended without pay, or fired on the spot if he is indeed doing this.

Write to the school board (BUT don't sign your name) they should be able and willing to put a stop to this very quickly.

Write a letter to your local news paper, if you don't get results.

Do not use your childs name in anything you say about the matter at all.