Hi, I am writing a research paper on the shooting that occured at Columbine High School. I would like to know if anyone here had attended school that day in Columbine high school or the surrounding schools. If so, could you please give me some details as to what went on and what had happend after. Thanks so much, any info would be greatly appreciated.
2007-02-22 06:09:57 · 4 answers · asked by iansbaby17 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
I was in the second grade at Leawood Elementary when the shootings happened. Leawood is only a minute away from Columbine. I was in lunch, and over the intercom, the principal announced that all students had to return to their homerooms; that there was something going on outside. Since Leawood was so close to Columbine, the students came there, and I will never forget seeing their faces. They were confused, lost, and every single one was crying because they knew that people had been killed. I remember crying myself because I was afraid something had happened to my babysitter, who was a junior there.
I am now a sophomore at Columbine High School, and I would never dream of going to another school. Everyone there is wonderful and we have a ton of school spirit. We have a beautiful new library dedicated to those who died. Our softball jerseys have Dave Sanders' initials on them because he was a softball coach.
One of my math teachers was a junior there when it happened, and she said that they went across the street and into the neighborhood and houses around the school to get away from it all. There were people who couldn't contact their parents for hours because cell phones weren't as popular.
My other math teacher taught both boys. He said they were brilliant, but quiet. After the shootings, backpacks and books were all left inside; the students were not allowed back inside to get their stuff. They all finished out the school year at Chatfield High School and when they came back to get their stuff in June (maybe August?) some of teh bags had been checked and had little tags on them from teh police. My teacher said it was really creepy seeing all of their stuff sitting right where they left it.
2007-02-23 22:04:36 · answer #1 · answered by becca1229 2 · 17⤊ 0⤋
Not me but an old teacher i had named Ms. Johnson who taught me at Winfields Middle School in North York in Toronto. She told us about it in an anti bullying class in December 2009. She was a senior who was in all classes with Eric and Dylan and they were bullied a lot and actually were thrown into trash cans and were pushed around.
She knew Rachel Scott and Issiah Shoels and also was in the library on the day of the shooting. This was at 11:30 am that morning and she was shot in the shoulder but recovered in the hospital within 3 weeks. She still remembers the massacre and knew Eric for 6 years since he moved. She knew Dylan since Grade 1 when they were in elementary school. She said bullying was very common in Columbine.
2016-11-29 15:28:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember right after Columbine, my high school banned guns in students' cars in the parking lot (hunting after school is a common practice in NW Montana). I wonder what they will do now. Knowing that I and my trusted friends would be left at the mercy of any psycho who decided to break that gun-ban, I felt much less safe throughout the rest of high school.
2016-05-23 23:26:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not attend Columbine, I went to a different school at a different time.
2007-02-22 06:16:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 30⤋