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Another child who brought a knife to school because her mother thought it would be useful for cutting an apple was expelled after the student turned the knife in on her own. Such an overreaction perpetuates fear and hurts the students.

Seeking Respect For kids in need of help, however, a thoughtful response to the problem is essential. School psychologists and social workers need to help disillusioned youths find a place for themselves in society, something many of them feel they lack. In one of Castillo's home videos he says: "All I wanted was respect No one respected me. On a broader scale, schools should offer seminars that advise students on ways to discover their talents and interests and how to use them to earn admiration.

Strong relationships with peers, teachers and other adults provide an even more effective shield against destructive fantasies. Criminologists have known for decades that building and maintaining relationships with socially accepted people is the best way to prevent violence.

When a youth establishes ties to people he cares about, he is apt to feel that he has too much at stake to act out his brutal dreams. All adolescents, not just teens at risk, should receive more social training in school. Primary violence prevention classes, for example, teach students social skills such as empathy and peaceful options for resolving conflicts.

In addition, a teacher's role should extend beyond dispensing knowledge to forging friendships with students and providing young people with adult confidants and role models. At the same time, teachers would be advised to educate students to view critically all media that glorify violence. The news media must take a stand as well. To make identifying with other school shooters more difficult, journalists and producers should focus less on the perpetrator, his deviant motives and the moment-by-moment unfolding of the deed--and more on the consequences of the crime.

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Some students and five staff members left Fair Haven Union because of what happened. Social studies teacher Julia Adams stayed. But she says she is still angry, and she worries Sawyer will one day carry out his threat. You don't take a threat lightly anymore. Nicole Cohen edited this story for broadcast and for the Web. Copyright Vermont Public Radio. To see more, visit Vermont Public Radio. VPR News. Vermont Edition. VPR Classical. Inside VPR. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations.

All Streams. Liam Elder-Connors. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. The next day, Valentine's Day, Sawyer took his new gun out for target practice. Then a friend of Sawyer's named Angela McDevitt spoke up. Sawyer's response stunned her: "That's fantastic," he wrote. We knew what he needed. We knew what would appeal to him. But we knew that there was nothing like that in our area. We have struggled as a country, across the country, different state laws, trying to articulate the permissible boundaries of how we can punish terroristic threats.

You don't threaten my kids in my classroom, or my colleagues. Nina Keck. Nina began reporting for VPR in , primarily covering the Rutland area. Her work is frequently featured on NPR.

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