I don’t think the school can be blamed in a significant manner. The problem is with the Warren Court closing down the mental health institutions for anyone except those presenting a clear threat to themselves or others.
YEP - what YOU said......until someone HARMS Someone....you cannot do anything, say the laws.....that’s also why there are so many crazies on the streets....and I don’t think “threats” necessarily count....they actually have to do something. Plus, the Privacy issue - they couldn’t talk to his parents.....I’ve been in this situation with a relative - it’s hopeless....and a helpless feeling......and does a disservice to the person and the community.
The university should have advised the young women to get a restraining order against the kid, that would have kept him from taking the same classes as the girls, kept him from getting the guns, and brought the law enforcement into the picture. The teacher told the kid that he couldn’t behave the way he was in her class and he told that he could. The police would have informed him that he couldn’t, at least not within five hundred feet of the girls who complained.
That was my first thought, until I heard about his removal from the professor's class and the arson attempts. Now I am not so sure. It appears messages of aberrant behavior were being sent and ignored.
Tell that to parents of the dead students. VT aided and abetted this crime on some many levels it is pathetic. Granted, the South Korean student pulled the trigger, but VT should have expelled that nut case years ago.
The lawsuits against VT are going bankrupt that political correct institution.