IS THIS BULLSHIT OR APPROPRIATE?

[HairOfTheDog]

HE'S BACK..........

A Tidwell Middle School student started a blog on a writers' website in August last year that was called 'Killing Children.' The tag line read: 'This is a continuous story about me murdering people I hate.'

There were 11 chapters published online up until January this year, featuring stories titled 'Massacre', 'Thrown Under The Bus' and 'Blood, Blood, And More Blood'. Some of the names of the murder/assault victims in the stories are the boy's classmates.

The children who were named eventually came across the blog and alerted their parents, who reported the incident. The boy was then removed from class, and his parents subsequently withdrew him from the school. The blog was also taken down.



However late last month, as students returned from spring break, so did the boy. The district and the boy's parents maintained the blog was a work of fiction, describing it as a horror story. The Tarrant County District Attorney's Office also ruled the blog was protected by the First Amendment.

Some students and parents are outraged. 170 students at the Texas school were absent the day after his return was announced.

A number of parents, particularly those whose children were named as murder or assault victims in the boy's stories, are protesting and keeping their children out of school due to fear. They want the boy expelled.

Refs:
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/tar.../70327006/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...peers.html
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I hope this 14-year-old is just a budding Stephen King and not a future violent criminal.

Is it bullshit or appropriate that this teen was allowed to return to the same school? Should he be expelled?