[beltfed308]

"We cannot take away someone's rights based on assumption," she said.

Well good. Tell that to the gun grabbers as they most assuredly have a mental disorder.

[Grendel9]

Any ELEMENTARY school teacher can tell you that
the time to pinpoint the disturbed personality
is at the 7th/8th grade level...NOT the College
kiddo. Almost too late when they hit junior
status in high school...they probably already
have a social/police/psychological profile record
a mile long by that time. And, because of the
fear of a law suit, the administrators overlook
tangible evidence, hoping the NEXT person in
charge of the potential perpetrator will take
the necessary action.
The situation is not too different than a
threatened victim being told by the police
that there is nothing they can do until the
threatener actually performs the deed. By
that time, of course, the victim is dead.

[onedoug]

To paraphrse from “Apocalypse Now”: “College. Sh__!”

[tumblindice]

“Colleges face dilemma deciding fate of mentally ill students.”

Young Democrats? They might grow out of it.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Shouldn’t expulsion be adequate?

[Scotswife]

“”We cannot take away someone’s rights based on assumption,” she said. “

And that attitude is why 32 kids were murdered.

[madprof98]

But even if students do get counseling, federal privacy laws bar the counselor from sharing information with other university professionals unless the student makes a specific threat, said Elizabeth Stanczak, director of counseling and health services at UTSA.

And the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects mentally ill people from discrimination, prevents campus officials from tossing someone out of school simply for being depressed or schizophrenic. If a student is clearly violating the campus' code of conduct, however, suspension is an option, Paine said.

If anybody actually wanted to stop such a massacre from happening again, these would be the laws to re-examine and revise so that a student whose behavior menaced classmates and teachers, as Cho's did, could be permanently removed from a public college before he turned violent.

[Albion Wilde]

The trouble is, the "caring" professions have become a hotbed of leftie ideology, where in the quest to drive out the concepts of sin, inborn conscience and personal responsibility, a patient displaying criminal ideation is excused, with misplaced compassion. His criminal threats and plans, rationalized as reactions to his upbringing, are somehow no longer criminal and the doctors feel no responsibility to alert authorities, either police or at the university.

I hope the doctors who "treated" this boy and released him are having sleepless nights now, comparable to the parents of the victims. But something tells me their humanist vanity might prevent that.