re: UVA shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones' parents speak out ahead of arraignment

When your kids are grown you don't know what they're really getting into. They might not communicate regularly or see each other very often. You hope and pray for the best, but people get caught up in the crazy quickly if they hang around it.

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How did he get into UVA?

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He applied and got accepted. Why is this such a mystery to you?

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Why was he still in U VA if he was off the team for a couple of years?

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So, if he leaves the team he can't remain as a student?

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How did he get into UVA? He applied and got accepted. Why is this such a mystery to you?

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Someone in this thread said he went to one of the worst high schools in America. My high school was a top 50 high school nationally and was also in VA and only a small portion of applicants got in.

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Someone in this thread said he went to one of the worst high schools in America. My high school was a top 50 high school nationally and was also in VA and only a small portion of applicants got in.

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He's a minority student who was a national merit scholar. To be a national merit scholar, he would have needed to test well on the PSAT. If he tested well on the PSAT, odds are he did well on the SAT/ACT and probably made good grades too. He also very well have been given an extra boost as a preferred walk-on to gain admittance (that happens plenty). Regardless, just because he went to a bad high school doesn't mean those bad high schools never send kids to good schools, especially in-state state universities. Yes, UVA is difficult to get into, but that doesn't mean they have no students from inner-city schools.

I'm sorry, it's just really odd that you are having trouble wrapping your head around how a walk-on football player was still a student if he quit the team. He was never on scholarship. He applied and was admitted to the school as a student. You don't get kicked out of school, even as a scholarship athlete, if you quit playing sports. If he was making grades and had a plan in place to take care of tuition, there's no reason him playing football would have interfered with his ability to remain a student. The school isn't gonna say, "well, you aren't on academic probation, but you quit football and went to a bad high school, so you can't go to school here anymore."

Do you realize how many scholarship athletes who are "processed" still stay in school and just don't play sport for the school anymore? And it happens even more with walk-on players like this guy. Hell, I'll even go the extreme route with Tyrann Mathieu. When he was first kicked off the football team before the 2012 season, he was still a student at LSU. It wasn't until his subsequent arrest that he was dismissed from the school too. The school has no basis to dismiss students in good academic standing because they lose a scholarship or quit playing a sport. That wouldn't even be legal.

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Jones Sr., however, did say he noticed his son "was really paranoid" when they last spoke.

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And versus saying let's get you some help he's like "aight I'll talk to you later."

edit: and I'm picking on him but a ton of people have no balls to say what needs to be said when someone is being or leading to destructive behavior

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Mental Illness is a real and needs to be dealt with in this country

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I feel for his parents.

This was quite the tirade because I was curious how a student who ended up murdering 3 people got into an elite college. And then stayed there after legal violations as well as breaking school bylaws that required internal intervention. Yes sorry that perplexed me.