School On Other Planets

Intergalactic prayers sent, cause I dunno how well smoke travels in the void between the worlds ...

t.
 
Intergalactic prayers will ramp up for Thursday, when in this fictional narrative, there might be a meeting including some of the parties involved.

Keem 'em safe, eh? Them ray guns can be nasty things.

t.
 
My wife used to work with seriously emotionally disturbed children. Some of XV's behaviors sound similar to ones demonstrated by those children.

Prayers sent to A, B and C and their father.

Eric
 
The first meeting will be a dust up. The alien parents will hear for the first time their son needs help. The Teacher will support the parent. The school will support the teacher. This, even though the parents remaining are the only ones whose children are left in the school. Everyonelse has fled the school.

Denial is our number one defense mechanism, and I guess it is on other planets too.


munk
 
At what point would the enrolment be such that the (fictional) school closes down?

You'd think that if enough aliens vote with their feet, that the violent little git might have the decision made for him.

I'm in awe of our species' (and apparently, other species') capacity to deny reality.
 
The school closing is a real possibility for the sponge sitters. Their dream would end of children in the same room of different ages, sex, class, and ethnicity. They had a real good thing. But XV has made it to pipe swinging, and you do something now, not in ten years.


munk
 
That's so. No dream of community integration is worth the bludgeoning of one (alien) child.

t
 
The kids were getting lots of one on one help. They took nature walks in the middle of the school day. It was a blessing for those on the small planet.

But XV has continued the pattern first observed when he was little, and is gradually esculating with larger weapons and more vulnerable targets.



munk
 
One reason we home school is to have all of our children grow up together, different ages, both sexes, and all the same mixed ethnicity.

On fridays, they go to a co op, and have interaction with different kids and teachers. Pipe swinging would not be tolerated.

These aliens should investigate starting their own school, or some alternative, where pipe swinging is not allowed.

They could have all of the benefits they used to have. It may take work though.

Tom
 
munk said:
But XV has continued the pattern first observed when he was little, and is gradually esculating with larger weapons and more vulnerable targets.
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'Tis a shame. Unlikely anything positive will come of this. I've seen similar situations before.

Child has a sociopathic personality. Most -- though certainly not all -- violent sociopaths are created due to a combination of neglect and abuse. Some, however, have parents who give them everything they want, and either deny or ignore any evidence that something may be "wrong" with their child . . . in their eyes, he can do no wrong. Therefore, counselling and medication are non-options.

'Tis a frightening thing to look into the eyes of a child and see no light there . . . naught but a festering blackness. Such a one seeks to harm others for the "joy" of overpowering those who are weaker. It will get worse. Some monsters are not created by systematic abuse . . . a rare few seem to be born evil. An unpopular theory when speaking of children.

The father of A,B,C should forbid his children to associate with XV, and write a log of all past and future incidents -- including dates, times, witnesses, and statements from others. The situation with the teacher sounds odd . . . if this is a public school in the U.S., complaints can be filed that go above the principal and superintendant, if need be. 'Tis a shame that the community has united against the father in support of XV . . . why do you think this is? Is it something more than, "Oh, he's only a child, and we all know that a bully would never intentionally injure another child" . . . there are thousands of documented cases of young children maiming and killing other children . . . "Oh, but a child doesn't understand the consequences of his actions" . . . maybe not fully, but the intent to harm is certainly there, and without responsible adult supervision XV is free to take this as far as he wants.

If the majority of the community is hostile to the father, he should seriously consider moving. Otherwise, if little XV were to run away or be the victim of a hit & run, you'd have a dozen neighbors telling the authorities, "Yeah, that paranoid guy hated llittle XV."

Bad situation all around. Sometimes it really is for the best to admit it's a "no-win situation" and leave . . . even if you know you're right.
 
The majority of the town is not hostile to the father. There will be some, and some backlash.
In a small community these things are known. In a big city this boy might have slipped through the cracks, but there are enough Rockcrushers and sponge sitters who know the boy that there may be hope yet- for everyone.

The tide is being shaped now. On going story.


munk
 
munk said:
The majority of the town is not hostile to the father. There will be some, and some backlash.
In a small community these things are known. In a big city this boy might have slipped through the cracks, but there are enough Rockcrushers and sponge sitters who know the boy that there may be hope yet- for everyone.
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Okay, the father is a "sponge sitter" and his friend is a "Rockcrusher" . . . but what do you call those in the alien community who vehemently support little XV the sociopath? :confused:
 
Locked in Denial.


Everytime's it's been something big, the temptation to excuse the action is actually much greater, because the consequences are so much greater. Who wants to step forward and be the first one to tell the mother....'sociopath?"

munk
 
munk said:
.... Who wants to step forward and be the first one to tell the mother....'sociopath?"

munk
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Well, my hand's up. But I'd have to shout pretty loud to be heard from clear over on my side of the continent.

t.
 
I must report with great sorrow the story has taken a heartbreaking detour. Everyone is safe- but I don't have the heart to go one with this story here.


munk
 
Denial and enabling seem to be an intergalatic universality.
Sorry for the bad turn this tale has taken. Smoke for a good outcome.
 
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