Have you ever

Have you as a parent ever wondered at what point did you lose your child? What was the incident that you know set your child from the path that he was following with his life. I have been thinking about my son and when I lost him. When his friends changed to the kind of friends I didn’t trust in my house. The kind of people you would cross the street when you can to avoid them? Well I finally pin pointed when it happened. I knew in my heart this is when it happened but I did not want to face the pain of this. It happened his second day of high school. At that time he was a boy scout enjoyed going to boy scouts had some good friends. Friends that took him on vacation with them. He was a good boy. That second day of school it wasn’t even during school it was after school well into the evening. A time that you would think the school had no control over your child if he wasn’t participating in school activities. A boy who was mad at my son went to the vice principal at school it was about 4:30 in th e afternoon. And said that my son was on school property (this was true he cut through the school property before the school was even built when it was still a park to go visit friends) and he had a knife. Yes he had a knife he always carried his boy scout knife and his totem chip stating he had earned the right to carry this knife. This boy knew this he use to be in scouts. So the vice principal found my son on the property walking toward home and asked him into his office. He asked him if he had a knife and he answered truthfully and was asked to empty his pockets he did so and also gave the totem chip. The vice principal called the principal and the principal ordered that he be arrested for carrying a knife onto school property. He would not have been in the school if the vice principal had not asked him my son had no parent there with him. We were called after the fact after the police came. The boy that told the principal then told the police that my son threatened him with the knife. Now there are two charges. We go to court the boy admits to the judge that he lied about the threatening, that my son never did this he said he was mad at my son. Did the boy get in any type of trouble at school for this no. The charges were dropped about the threatening. the judge was furious about the arrest with the knife. It should never of happened the charges were dismissed like they never happened. The principal had a fit and ordered my son out of school for 45 days. A child with learning disabilities was thrown out of school for 45 days and only given an hour a day of tutoring. Did any one think this child would really be keeping up with his classmates? Wat this child going to succeed in the school when he came back? None of the parents wanted their children to play with my son any more. His friend now all gone he gravitated to the only children that would talk to him. As much as I tried I could not get him back on the path. He would constantly tell me these are the only friends that he had. So he changed the path he was walking on. Now he is on a path that I do not know where it will lead but if he keeps this up it will lead him so far form the right path so far that family will not want to associate with him. I can do nothing but watch. But I have pinpointed the time of his life that he changed it was the second day of high school. I wish I could go back and never had allowed hi to attend this school . It was the point in which his childhood was taken from him by a man who was spiteful because he did not get his way and took it out on my son. If he was dieing and I had the cure I would not give it to him. He can rot. He changed the path my son started to take. I know now that he is of age he choses his path but he believes he is to far away form the path to make it back. He is just 18 and has given up already that man robed me of who my son might have become.

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