I have two kids. I was a kid when Columbine happened and remember thinking of the shooters as evil personified. Something almost other worldly. But as an adult who has researched this case extensively I cannot get over how incredibly human they were. Two kids whose writings and ramblings are so relatable to the population that they have a cult following to this day. I read a comment from someone on this sub about the parents not possibly knowing what was happening by saying they have known? Adam Lanza? Yes. These two? No. And i believe that's true. How can two kids have so many people fooled? Do you all really check your teenagers' rooms? What about inside the headboard? Their internet history? When does it go from teenage angst to this? The ammunition some would say, but where is it hidden? I don't know I've just been in my head about this today. I know these cases are rare but even with the common happenings of mass shootings if one of my children suddenly seemed withdrawn it would still be the last possibility in my mind.
Interesting fact: From 1937, when the school opened, until 1954, Anacostia High only had one principal, a woman named Opal Corkery. (Wasn't it rather unusual for a woman to be a high-school principal back then? ) When the DC school system announced its plans to desegregate in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, she quit and became a teacher in Fairfax County... until 1959, when Arlington County integrated at which time she retired to her native Mississippi, where she died in 1971. Also, Anacostia HS didn't become majority-black until 1962; as late as 1959-60 it was still 74% white. Now there's a woman who stood up for her beliefs, as wrongheaded as they seem today.
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