August, I am a little confused about just which recent shooting incident to which you are referring. The one where the student blew the teacher away during the last dance didn't kill any students, as I recall. The teacher's name is Gillette. Is that the one?
I am not sure that it is possible to tell THAT much about someone else's family from a distance, even if they seem to have strong family values. Parents may be preoccupied, working hard to survive, and not notice a troubled young teen. The family may be upstanding in the community, but with a cold and undemonstrative father, or one parent who is abusive behind the scenes. A child may have been sexually molested, and not gotten therapy for it, and may be very, very angry at the world. There are many, many ways a family can be dysfunctional.
And certainly, many high school students who might have settled something with an angry note passed in class, or a fist fight, now blow away everyone they can. I think there is a terrible emergency in America, but unless there is a very recent killing, it all fades into the background quickly.
I do suspect that as time goes on, you will discover stuff about the child's family, or about the child, that you did not expect. Really healthy children from really healthy families do not do these things.
Is there some indication of what really happened, or why, yet? |
