Adam Lanza's Mom Pulled Him Out of School: Relative

[FarCenter]

The aunt of Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza said the shooter's mother pulled him out of Newtown's public school system because she was unhappy with the school district's plans for her son.

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Marsha Lanza, who is Adam's aunt and Nancy's ex-sister-in-law, called her former sister-in-law an "awesome ... giving person." She also told Evelyn Holmes of ABC-owned-and-operated station WLS in Chicago that Nancy had once been a classroom aide at the Sandy Hook school.

Marsha, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake, said that Nancy had home-schooled Adam after pulling him out of the Newtown public school system. "She mentioned she wound up home-schooling him because she battled with the school district," said Marsha.

She did not know when Adam had left school. According to former classmates, Adam had attended the local high school at least through part of 10th grade.


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/adam-lanzas-mom-pulled-school-relative/story?id=17985433

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Did Adam harbor resentment - perhaps fomented by his mother - against public education?

[qanda]

2. At that age, he was probably old enough to drop out

Sounds like he was having some major issues with school. Maybe he should have been institutionalized.

[SajayHobbs]

3. The mother son dynamic will be revealed

Something there, obviously.

[HooptieWagon]

4. I guess we'll have to wait for full details.

Perhaps Nancy Lanza pulled her son out of school because of influence of "bad" friends, and he resented her for that?

What I do know, is that teen/parent issues are part of the "leaving the nest" syndrome. However, that does not include thoughts of murdering a parent or shooting up an elementary school. It seems there were more serious mental problems the shooter had. Were these the source of the issue the mother had with the school? Did the school see the problems and the mother refuse to acknowledge, or did the mother see problems the school wouldn't address? I haven't heard of psychological help given the kid, and apparently the parents could afford it. Just kind of hard to believe there were no warning signs, if people had been paying attention.

[FarCenter]

6. I think that there is more to come out about this aspect as well.

Haven't read them, but there are several novels about idyllic little New England towns that are not so idyllic. Maybe someone more interested in literature would know.

I had a cube next to a guy who has an autistic son. This was several years ago. His problem was that the school was refusing to give his son any special services and was intent on simply mainstreaming his son through school without giving him any help. He was writing to the capitol, working with lawyers, threatening to sue the school district, etc.

Wonder whether the school board minutes are kept for more than a few years?

[Barack_America]

7. I would suspect she didn't agree with the father's plans, either.

I would suspect that disagreement regarding what to do with their troubled son contributed to the divorce. And that's why the older son moved with the father and cut ties with his brother.

I would suspect that she was in considerable denial about how deeply troubled her son actually was, though she seemed to be comprehending his needs were beyond her grasp in her final days.

Whatever I suspect, I know that this boy's needs slipped through the cracks, with disastrous results.