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A troubled six year old is beyond saving? I’m generally pretty cynical, but that just seems defeatist to me. I think anyone with serious mental issues at any age is capable of turning their life around, with the proper care, assistance, and maintenance. We should never give up on people, especially kids like this who are clearly in need of extensive help.
There were a lot of institutional failures that helped make this horrific attack possible, but I believe all of them are solvable with some creativity and empathy. We can’t just throw up our hands and move on.
This isn’t a “troubled” 6 year old. Troubled kids don’t have consistent patterns of aggressive activity and consistent noted attacks on students and staff. This child should NOT be in a normal school or classroom for that matter. It’s not really defeatist as much as it is someone who’s worked in the school system long enough to know that our priorities shouldn’t be on keeping this kid from others when he’s a threat. The ultimate failure falls on the principal/admin for not searching the student properly and listening to staff and student warnings, but there’s also a failure that we have a system that puts children like this with “normal” functioning children. At the end of the day we sometimes have to make calls for the greater society that feel like throwing our hands up but are really working towards a more perfect system.
Yeah, “troubled” was probably not the right word for me to use. This kid is beyond troubled. You make some good points, especially about needing alternate tracks to keeps kids like this away from “normal” kids. You’ve given me some things to think about, thanks!
There's a balance between the extremes. It's too early to assume he's beyond saving, but he also should be kept away from kids and teachers who don't need this trauma. He needs to be in intensive therapy and it seems like everyone has failed him. I read there was violence in his family, and it's likely he's emulating that and he certainly is troubled. He deserves to have someone try. A lot of kids have recovered from what looks like psychopathy.
Yeah. Small children kind of inherently have traits that would be sociopathic/psychopathic in adults. They don't even realize other people have feelings and thoughts that are different from their own until they're like 4 and they're still developing that awareness even at 8 years old. It's harder to have empathy when you're barely aware that someone might be feeling differently than yourself. Most have little to no impulse control, are very narcissistic (again, not really internalizing other people have their own thoughts and feelings), and generally will do whatever to get their way. Most of them grow out of it. It's really the interest in violence that's unusual; but if that's what the kid has been exposed to, then it that's the main issue.
My only thing with it is he went from “counseling, therapy and drugs might help” to he’s a psychopath when he showed no remorse. Which to me is sort of a sign to cut our losses. Or at least move him to an area where we can control it.