Weird Little Memory

[shanmonster]

When I was about 15 years old, I was walking up from the dirt mall toward high school when I saw a police car in the schoolyard. I was curious, so I asked one of the other kids who was standing close by.

"Oh, there was a death threat."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Someone told another kid they'd kill him."

This astonished me. I remember thinking, you call the cops for THAT? I'd been getting death threats from other kids on a weekly basis for years. Is calling the cops was a waste of time, or was it something I should have been doing all along?

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There's something wrong about thinking regular death threats are part of everyday life.

Comments

[professormass.livejournal.com]

Calling the cops is a waste of time.

Yet another reason why we're homeschooling. They just keep stacking up.