It'd be interesting to know how they come up with their responses to bullying. Is it the kind of thing each province or school board comes up with independently, or is the central guidance?
at least being charged gets them into the system where a judge can rule they need psychiatric assessment and treatment
The accused was already undergoing treatment over the summer.
Even if she was charged, she'd presumably continue going to the same school until a court date.
That wouldn't have helped the victim.
Cops washing their hands of the whole thing was stupid, and a failure to care for the whole community.
The school and school board has the same responsibility and more tools available. The cops can, at best, lay charges and hope the courts handle the case in time. The school doesn't need to go through a legal process, administrators can transfer, reprimand, or expel the accused with less overhead.
Why would you just want the girls transferred to another school where they could begin threatening a different student?
I don't want that, but it's a minimally invasive tool to get the killer kid away from potential victims. There's no guarantee she would start threatening others in a new school. At the very least it would have kept the victim safer.
It sounds like the accused needed to be in a psychiatric institution, but those don't really exist any more.
It would be the last thing the Trump admin does. The US would quickly succumb to civil war as every member of NATO and Canada's military partners swarm to defend it and the rebelling US states. The US, as it stands today, would effectively be destroyed.
I don't think the world is that altruistic.
Americans tend to do what they're told, so I wouldn't expect anything other than thoughts and prayers from within the US. Sure, there would be a Million Maple March in Washington, but nothing would come of it.
I doubt our NATO partners would rush to put their soldiers in harms way. The US is a nuclear superpower that says it's their ally - that's both a carrot and stick getting them to sit out. I don't think they've even offered much condemnation of Trump's "51st state" comments.
Is it really a police responsibility in this case?
The school seemed to know the attacker was in psychiatric care, was aware of the text messages, was aware of their previous vandalism, but still chose to keep the attacker in the same school as the victims.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the school board to have moved the attacker to a different school?
Isn't most of Alberta's oil exported as unrefined bitumen and then refined in the US? If that's the case, we'd need to find a trading partner that can handle our product.
I saw a Rifts sourcebook in a game store. I think they're doing a nostalgia reprint run.
I played the shit out of that game.