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In reply to the discussion: Should a 13-year old murderer be tried as an adult? [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)when he was 11. This was in a class of At Risk 5th Graders and I was just a TA. I never mentioned any of their past records, which were quite substantial, to them. This one boy volunteered this info, which I already knew, to me. Brilliant boy, literally, way ahead of his grade level.
He told me that he really didn't want to kill Grandma, but his Mom instead who had made his life so miserable. "Gram was really nice to me and I am sorry I did that". I won't get into what his mother did to him, but he then told me that when he grew up, he wanted to marry and have his own kids so he would "do right" by them and not have them live the life he had.
All I said to him was that you have the SMARTS to do that and make it happen. He smiled at me, and said, "Count on it".