metimayden:  I'm not sure who you're addressing with this comment.  It appearned in my "inbox" like you were addressing me.  It poses an issue for other persons on the conversation string when you don't address comments to a specific person.  Sometimes the site shows who you're responding to, sometimes it doesn't....as with your post above.  Just a suggestion.........

If you're posting to me, you're right, I don't know a great deal about the "east Springfield demographic."  However, I'm not too sure how that's relevant.  

When someone goes "off the rails" a first reaction by many individuals is to assign blame to someone....parents, the school, the sub-culture, or whomever.  As I stated above, I find that mean-spirited and unfair.  As I also stated, I don't know the Craigs and have no idea what kind of parents they are...."good", "bad", "conscientious", "negligent" or whatever.  However, I will say I think it is grossly inappropriate to condemn the parents and family at this time...