I'm so ****ed off at Virginia Tech

[DSL1990]

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The only fault I would hold against the school is not notifying the parents of a possible situation.

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<p>i don’t see anywhere that it is written that the university needs to notify parents of possible situations. instead, the article clearly shows the university did not follow its own procedure.</p>

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In fact, one of Kim’s friends from another state had e-mailed the Virginia Tech health center with the subject line: “Emergency About Suicidal Student.” </p>

<p>“Daniel has been acting very suicidal recently, purchasing a $200 pistol and claiming he’ll go through with it,” said the e-mail from Shaun Pribush, who had become an online friend of Kim’s. “Once again, this is very serious; this is not a joke.”</p>

<p>The e-mail was sent at 3:58 a.m. November 5, 2007.</p>

<p>University protocol states that a suicidal person needs to see the “psychologist on call,” but that never happened. Instead, Virginia Tech passed on the information to the Blacksburg police, who at 11:45 a.m. that day showed up at Kim’s doorstep for what police records show was a “welfare check,” what school officials call a “wellness check.”

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<p>if students in trouble don’t need to see the on-call psychologist, why does the school even bother having one? why not change the procedure to instead be:</p>

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a suicidal person needs to have “their parents called”

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<p>the school definitely made a mistake here. and i guess now his parents are going to sue for millions because of it. :/</p>