tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post8138167705962519472..comments2024-03-06T04:16:12.541-06:00Comments on Tony's Kansas City: TKC QUESTION OF FAITH: HAS REPORTED ROCKHURST TRAGIC SUICIDE HAMPERED KANSAS CITY CATHOLIC HOLY WEEK?!?!Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17923450492847284487noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-3270325169802693692018-12-12T21:24:48.772-06:002018-12-12T21:24:48.772-06:00Saved as a favorite, I love your web site!Saved as a favorite, I love your web site!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-38297328861699322462017-06-18T16:15:31.665-05:002017-06-18T16:15:31.665-05:00Thank you! I find most of these comments extremely...Thank you! I find most of these comments extremely incorrect and lack the proper information.<br />Rockhurst has handled this horrific and tragic situation of the loss of a beloved 15 year old boy with immediate support, resources, love and gracce, as well in a very honorable and respectful manner to this boys memory and sensitivity to his family.<br /><br />So please know that posting information without knowing is hurtful and reckless.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />The mother of the boy who lost his life<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-65118476385210377882017-06-18T16:07:05.376-05:002017-06-18T16:07:05.376-05:00Thank you very much. They have no idea what the fa...Thank you very much. They have no idea what the facts are and Rockhurst and the community has done an excellent job in helping these boys through a horrific tragedy .<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-57692658672514790122017-05-05T07:53:41.165-05:002017-05-05T07:53:41.165-05:00Go Tara Hall!
You sound like an amazing human and ...Go Tara Hall!<br />You sound like an amazing human and advocate for these young men.<br />Keep fighting the good fight.<br />Like any extremely difficult and sad situation, most people don't know how to act or react.<br />I am a product of Rockhurst High in the 90's.<br />My parents chose for a couple of us to go their, my other bro to SME & my sis to Aquinas.<br />We all turned out okay, except the other one who went to Rockhurst.<br />"Men for Others" is not just a Rockhurst slogan, but a mantra on how we live our lives. We are Catholic, but, just as important, spiritual beings with a soul.<br />I used to call these problems "first world," but not if we're taking our own lives.<br />I have five kiddos and we sit and talk about what we do and where we go when extreme sadness kicks in.<br />Rockhurst and a lot of schools have been a great, supportive shoulder for us all to lean against.<br />A little rambly, but mainly wanted to show support for The Rock and Tara.<br />Thanks again Tara...<br />Anonymous ElliottE Moneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102076579384383166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-36668566297490363072017-04-21T08:36:28.352-05:002017-04-21T08:36:28.352-05:0010% is an abomination. 1 child lost to suicide is...10% is an abomination. 1 child lost to suicide is 1 too many. We must bring this crisis to the forefront of our communities actions. Parents, schools and medical professionals should share in the responsibility of awareness. Funding to promote awareness should come from our communities as well. There needs to be dedicated funding for this crisis as has been provided for awareness around alcoholism, drunk driving and drug abuse. Greymamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05958158405265519114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-10216811929280010582017-04-21T08:29:36.819-05:002017-04-21T08:29:36.819-05:0010% is an abomination. 1 child list to suicide is...10% is an abomination. 1 child list to suicide is 1 too many. We have a problem. We must bring this crisis to the forefront of our communities actions.Greymamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05958158405265519114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-62315233927254326612017-04-20T11:48:15.596-05:002017-04-20T11:48:15.596-05:00I question the stats and did look it up. Accordin...I question the stats and did look it up. According to the CDC, the Missouri rate for high school aged students is 10%. Rockhurst is at .01%. Where are your stats from?Tara Hallhttp://www.rockhursths.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-75258324006230692202017-04-19T17:37:08.588-05:002017-04-19T17:37:08.588-05:00Keeping this quiet is as damaging to the cause as ...Keeping this quiet is as damaging to the cause as universities that try to hide the incidents of rape on their campuses. We need more awareness and education not less. Rockhurst should do the right and decent thing for everyone in the community by opening up and using this incident as a spring board to put themselves out there as leaders in the cause against teen suicide by opening up dialogs and sponsoring education sessions in the name of the teens who have resorted to such extreme measures. Several years ago, an Olathe high school had a string of suicides and they brought in the equivalent of a mental health SWAT team to educate and support not just their own population, but that of surrounding communities. Rockhurst should do the same and be a leader instead of hiding and hoping it will all just go away. Hiding and ignoring only feeds the negative associations of Catholics with horrific scandals and cover-ups. Stand up and "Be The Church" as the Apostle Paul instructed!!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-46137064714085368432017-04-18T15:48:25.356-05:002017-04-18T15:48:25.356-05:00I DID LOOK IT UP...
FROM THE CDC... ...I DID LOOK IT UP...<br />FROM THE CDC... <br />The percentage of students who attempted suicide (one or more times<br />during the 12 months before the survey), 2015. The values range from 5.9% to 12.7%.<br />Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont,<br />Virginia, range from 5.9% to 7.8%. California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana,<br />Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, range from 7.9% to 9.5%. Arizona,<br />Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia, range from<br />9.6% to 10.4%. Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, Rhode Island,<br />South Carolina, Wyoming, range from 10.5% to 12.7%. North Carolina, Maryland, did not<br />ask this question. Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Utah<br />and Wisconsin did not have weighted data. Minnesota, Oregon and Washington did not<br />participate.<br /><br />Rockhurst has over 1000 students. The Missouri rate is roughly 10%. So if you are saying Rockhurst has 5 times the Missouri rate, then over 500 RHS students would have taken their lives in the last year. Really, PLEASE STOP BEING SO IRRESPONSIBLE. Tara Hallhttp://www.rockhursths.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-72425812871005668842017-04-18T15:25:00.610-05:002017-04-18T15:25:00.610-05:00Oh brave Anonymous-- where oh where do you get thi...Oh brave Anonymous-- where oh where do you get this "fact"? It is so irresponsible to say this when you are so far from the truth and real facts. Tara Hallhttp://www.rockhursths.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-12346886498879335542017-04-18T15:17:59.691-05:002017-04-18T15:17:59.691-05:00There are ZERO subsidies from the Catholic Church....There are ZERO subsidies from the Catholic Church. Parents can come to school any time but not disrupt classes. There is no intense discipline...please cite facts. Every kid has a cell phone. There are not 1000+ wayward boys but there are 1000+ Men for Others. Tara Hallhttp://www.rockhursths.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-37771736212044775152017-04-18T15:14:40.151-05:002017-04-18T15:14:40.151-05:00Every kid in the building has a phone on their per...Every kid in the building has a phone on their person. Again, if you have no ties to the school and no real facts, find them out before you spew misinformation. Tara Hallhttp://www.rockhursths.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-88655948325234068702017-04-18T14:40:09.664-05:002017-04-18T14:40:09.664-05:00Get the facts...wrong on both counts. Tara Hall As...Get the facts...wrong on both counts. Tara Hall Assistant Director of Admission, Rockhurst High School Tara Hallhttp://www.rockhursths.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-12443455874993109152017-04-16T23:19:45.581-05:002017-04-16T23:19:45.581-05:00"Rockhurst has zero tolerance tolerence of dr..."Rockhurst has zero tolerance tolerence of drugs and alcohol".<br />Dumbest thing I've read yet. <br />The school is a mess of boys doing everything they can to get "high" without getting busted. And it's well known that the school is a great place to find manufactured drugs that don't show up on a typical drug test.<br />Broken families aren't the cause of this kid's demise. It's foolish, niave parents like yourself that are the cause. You can pray until your blue in the face. Won't change this outcome. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-52416049764357767232017-04-16T19:28:22.477-05:002017-04-16T19:28:22.477-05:00Suicide was a result of a break up, sources say. A...Suicide was a result of a break up, sources say. All these speculations are just hilarious. Everyone has a soapbox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-61432718665298669632017-04-15T11:56:50.387-05:002017-04-15T11:56:50.387-05:00The suicide rate at Rockhurst High School is 5 tim...The suicide rate at Rockhurst High School is 5 times higher than the Missouri State average for high school students. If that's not cause for concern, what is? And if you question the statistics, look it up. They lost one from the senior class last year and another from the freshman class this year. The student population numbers are public knowledge. So it's indisputable. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-39221574824094664352017-04-14T16:27:19.632-05:002017-04-14T16:27:19.632-05:00A slow kid can't make it at Barstow or PH by t...A slow kid can't make it at Barstow or PH by the time they get to high school. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-28060917758288146382017-04-14T12:09:22.289-05:002017-04-14T12:09:22.289-05:00At least in the 1990s the only people who willingl...At least in the 1990s the only people who willingly went to Rockhurst were old money Catholic families.<br /><br />Most of the people they admitted were behavior problems who had gotten into fights or had trouble with the law at BVN or SME.<br /><br />There is even less reason to go there now that Saint Thomas Aquinas exists for people who want to live in the suburbs AND send their kids to private school.<br /><br />Barstow and PemHill took their fair share of behavior problems too. But they required that the parents have serious f-u money and the kid be merely slow or have learning issues- not be violent or a sociopath.<br /><br />I agree with the poster that Barstow and Pembroke are the two best schools. Although now that anyone can get into an Ivy (10% admit) from a public school and elite liberal arts colleges like Smith, Colby or wherever is anywhere from 25% to 50% you don't need a Pembroke diploma to go somewhere else than a UM system school.<br /><br />Smart parents would be wise to take that 20k x 4 and put it into a trust fund. With the arms race with college, nearly everyone has to pursue postgraduate education now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-85615373008652757962017-04-13T17:42:11.416-05:002017-04-13T17:42:11.416-05:00They need to allow girls. I'm about to kill my...They need to allow girls. I'm about to kill myself by way of masturbation. It hurts so good but suicide by chaffing is also sin said me priest. But I'm still not going to touch his balls. Hudson Hawkletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-29474508497582517802017-04-13T17:00:16.722-05:002017-04-13T17:00:16.722-05:004:26 what do you mean never violent?
They killed ...4:26 what do you mean never violent?<br /><br />They killed people didn't they?<br /><br />So don't be stupid.<br /><br />You are in denial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-62271208584043678592017-04-13T16:33:32.602-05:002017-04-13T16:33:32.602-05:00"It doesn't mean that all military vets a..."It doesn't mean that all military vets are people who have problems, but of course, many of them do." Baloney. A few do. The majority, by far, don't.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-10836336998928164982017-04-13T16:26:06.572-05:002017-04-13T16:26:06.572-05:00My grandfather who was a marine & fought his a...My grandfather who was a marine & fought his ass off all over the Pacific & had big chunks of flesh missing on his legs & his torso,both sides & was decorated for bravery & killing the fuck out of a bunch of japs,didn't have a mean bone in his body. All he did was raise four hugely successful great human beings. He did drink his ass off but still was never violent.I have two uncles who fought in Nam & are & always have been exceedingly non-violent. No they weren't perfect people, who is? But violent...never Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-62175877980785913032017-04-13T15:45:05.966-05:002017-04-13T15:45:05.966-05:003:16, lots of my family are in the military and no...3:16, lots of my family are in the military and none of them are naive or disillusioned enough to believe that being a vet means that you are a perfect person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-65788387650753037262017-04-13T15:37:19.329-05:002017-04-13T15:37:19.329-05:00Maybe the suicide had nothing to do with school.Maybe the suicide had nothing to do with school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-86329761089442857722017-04-13T15:34:40.793-05:002017-04-13T15:34:40.793-05:003:29, to say that military vets have issues with v...3:29, to say that military vets have issues with violence and that if you are in the military you have discipline is just a fact. It doesn't mean that all military vets are people who have problems, but of course, many of them do. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com