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Bethel Park High School officials have contradicted reports that Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was bullied, threatening, and a member of the school’s rifle team.
In updated statements posted Saturday, officials said they have “no record” of Crooks ever trying out or being dismissed from the rifle team due to character or performance concerns, as previously reported.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Schools tend to hide bullying problems I know from experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Quick, get rid of the paperwork. Adam, where is the effing shredder. Bully? Nonsense. Never happened.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My high school would have said I wasn't bullied. They'd be lying.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lying implies intent. They likely would just be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're still not qualified to make that statement. It's a fucking high school, the safest stance is always going to be that a kid like that was bullied.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only statement they should make is if they have a record of him being bullied or not. They should not be speculating either way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The article actually does say that they have no record. So it's thedailybeast.com misquoting them in the headline presumably in an effort to spin a narrative.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh please, look at that year book photo again and tell me seriously that he wasn't bullied.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This shit here is why I'm glad I was homeschooled with caring, loving parents.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

We literally didn't have bullies in our school.

Of course, we also had proper funding and an administration that both gave a shit and had the power to expel bullies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sounds like you got lucky compared to many. My wife's experience at a large high school despite not being one of the easier targets still saw and experienced plenty. Bullying of my older sister was a big reason my parents did the same for us decades ago. Meanwhile the general statistics show a rising trend of bullying, forgetting rising adolescent suicide and ODs. Probably no coincidence that this coincides with rising school shootings, too. We mutually agreed to homeschool our kids with supplementary education (online curriculums, state resources, libraries, etc.).

Secular, not religious Christian fundies. That's where many issues with homeschooling arise.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"School says he wasn't bullied" no shit. Guy could get beaten right in front of the principal and they'd claim nothing happened lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Imagine interviewing the superintendent or whoever and they go: wait, you're talking about Pantshitter Mcglasses? Yeah we bullied him, look at this little shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

He'd be suspended or expelled for "participating in a fight"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Every report I’ve seen said he failed to make the tea so I don’t know where the fake fact came from that he was on it, but this is the first time I have read he wasn’t picked on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The claim they're making is that he was not kicked out of club for his behavior.

I've always seen it claimed he wasn't allowed in at all for strange comments and poor aim.

Interesting that they're saying something no one was claiming happened didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, I don't think we can rely on a school self-reporting bullying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There is no bullying in hi-school-sai.

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