Recent content by BlueberryBird

The teens I've taught are all usually on top of medications for serious health issues. They keep track of when to go to the nurse, etc. Mental health related medications might be another issue, but in my experience, most kids are involved and responsible when they have important medications to...

The side hug is usually a conservative Christian thing. The purpose is to avoid frontal physical contact, even with close friends and family members (i.e. a brother and sister). Since DE attended a Christian school for many years, side hugs could very well just be the "proper" way to show...

Re: Nicole's phone being turned off. Do people bother to turn their phone off? I always just turn off sound or use airplane mode. I don't think I ever actually turn my phone off. When we have state testing at school and my students have to turn in their phones, almost everybody seems to do...

I am so adamantly anti-capital punishment, but in some of these cases, I start to forget why.

They look sort of chewed to me. It's so hard to tell.

I highly recommend the docudrama Swoon to anybody interested in L&L.

Somehow, I had forgotten about the other murder case at VT. i have the weird feeling sometimes that Cho unleashed something evil that has continue to infect the environment. I know that is fanciful and I'm. Or at all superstitious, but I find it so hard to reconcile all the extreme bad things...

I wonder if they met there and not online.

Is this the same Alex that popped up attaching himself to other murder cases? If so, I find his credibility questionable. whoops, seems so. I got behind on the thread so shouldn't have been posting.

I think this is my biggest question. Right now, I'm inclined to think that it took both of them--a match made in hell. (I never meant to imply in my earlier posts that people here were being harsh or cruel re: Nicoke's parents. I never quoted anybody in that regard. I have seen unfair...

NK is left handed, based on the photo of her directing Suessical.

He attended a Christian school for many years. The side hug thing is probably related to that. It's a cultural thing; full hugs aren't considered appropriate. I wouldn't read anything else into it other than an attempt to make his interactions with Nicole seem normal and aboveboard.

Thank you for this post. I teach at an alternative school. Kids might attend because of emotional disabilities, offenses committed on school property or in the community, etc. We have involved parents who do their best and parents who don't give a crap. Just because a kid is troubled doesn't...

It seems as if she is trying to sound like a measured news reporter, but instead she just sounds aggressive and rather harsh. Given her involvement in theater, I was a bit surprised.

The snow was not as severe in Blacksburg as other places in the state. I know the town buses had some limited runs and hours, but the area is used to larger amounts of snow. I'm not currently in BBurg, but it's my understanding that there wasn't even much interruption to class schedules. When I...