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2000 miles through the snow, it's very far
by anna at 07:34 AM on November 06, 2004
This is basically in follow-up to my last post. And while this whole affair is just incredibly sad, I can't help but laugh. What is this world coming to? Why, a full 3 days later, did it fall to "a friend" to find their frozen corpses? How do 11 year old boys A) Develop alcoholism B) Get enough vodka to have a .5 BAC (5 times the legal limit) C) Slip away from school unnoticed D) Have parents sick enough to think they can sue the school district when they themselves are culpable for the whole travesty?! (To say nothing of the other boy who died drunk of smoke inhalation in their trailer.)
God help us if we all don't develop some sense of personal responsibility, and soon.
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This bottle...of Stevens...awakens ancient feelings... Say it ain't so...
by LOCKHEED at November 6, 2004 2:02 PM
I've never been to Montana. Nobody has. But I picture it as sparsely populated, flat, treeless and covered in snow year-round. I know it's big, but, wouldn't the boys have thus been realtively easy to find? 3 days is a long time.
by anna at November 7, 2004 8:11 AM
Welll, I've been to Montana. There's snow for a goodly portion of the year, but no more than five or six months. I'm curious too, where the hell was this kid that they didn't find him for three days? They weren't on school proptery, so that probably explains why he wasn't found right away, but where these kids be that their friend would find them three days later but no one else would see them? Did they have a special drinking field or something?
Anyway, I can see how the parents would be mad at the district for letting their kids be able to skip out of class, but, come to think of it, that wouldn't really have been too hard at my school either. I'm not sure what, if any, legal recourse the family should have against the school. Almost definitely none for failing to provide enough Indian staff members, anyway. It's not like the children are permitted to intoxicate themselves in class, but an Indian staff memeber would've seen the danger in letting the Indian students participate. The kids left school, got loaded, and got into trouble. Sad, but probably not really the school's fault.
by Mike Sheffler at November 7, 2004 1:28 PM
My wife pointed out than when my stepdaughters weren't present for classes thiss wierd cyborg voice used to call us and inform us of their absence. Maybe if they'd have done that the parents could have stumbled upon them sooner.
by anna at November 8, 2004 7:47 AM