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

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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. This part made me laugh though. We are on tigerdroppings, baw.

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Not sure what the insinuation is here. I saw kids with 4.0s from a blue ribbon high school in NOVA crying in the bathroom because they didn’t get into UVA. So yeah that makes me scratch my head when someone from the area said earlier that he went to a poor high school and bounced around central VA without much parental involvement in his life. I saw kids who pretty much prepared their whole life to go there get the door slammed shut on them with sterling credentials. (I never had a prayer of going there and gladly ended up at LSU )

Then we find out he’s had a bit of a disciplinary history even before this incident both criminal and with the school. I don’t think the kids who usually go to UVA suddenly turn to a life of crime once they leave high school and get to campus because the classes are too hard. I’d imagine there were other issues before then that UVA likely knew about but overlooked.

Some other articles said they were investigating all that at the university level so we shall see.