popular girl died and whole school had to mourn. they hushed up she was drunk driving.
a not popular girl died and nary a word was said about her. she had CF. only got a * in the graduation book. they stopped the presses for the yearbook to insert a whole tribute to the popular girl.
wasn't a controversy to the popular people but, to us common folk... it was.
almost the same thing happened at my high school. popular jock died, we had a whole class field trip to his funeral, got lunch catered for the whole school and had a day in school with no classes at all. they even built and named a basketball court in his name. other kid died of cancer that he’s been fighting since he was in 3rd grade. we took a “moment of silence” and that was it bruh. insane.
That's truly terrible. I would have made a huge stink about it as a kid. I was quiet mostly but I hated injustice, would stop bullying or break up fights when I could, probably the bravest part of me back then. Today I'd verbally rip someone a new ah lol
something similar happened at my school. junior football player took his own life (very tragic) and we had a memorial and everything for him the next day. classes were pretty much free reign that day. same year or maybe the year after a freshman my brother knew passed away due to cancer. they never even announced it or offered therapists for friends and family of hers. it was like she never existed and i still think about it 8 years later.
Studies have shown that when schools memorialize a student who died by suicide, it actually encourages others to consider the same action. I’m not saying that we should ignore anyone who died by suicide, I was just commenting on how the school responded to it.
It happened to me in 2018, lost 1 girl to a 4-wheeler accident, i shared classes with her, ONE TEACHER gave us a speech about how she was there if we needed anything. Then the next year a guy fell off the back of a truck and died, full out grief councilors actually walking around the school, the morning announcements had a moment of silence, he got 2 full pages of the year book, the football team did a thing in memory
It was just very jarring for the school to seem to care about one but not the other, and i get we were teenagers but honestly the dude fucking sucked, he was a bully, she wasn't. It's just messed up to me that i can't think of 1 bad thing the girl did, she wasn't very popular but she was mean or anything, then i can list for days shit i disliked about the dude.
A well liked athletic guy in my school went over a cliff while skiing and we all got pins with skis on them to wear for the graduation ceremony. Another more nerdy guy and my friend was beaten up by his friend while egged on by another douche. Nothing was done to commemorate him.
The douche went on to be famous in my town for having an undercover video of him abusing and pretending to fuck chickens go viral. He's known as the chicken fucker now, but he was always a loser.
Another kid I knew went missing a couple years after I graduated, 9 years ago. no trace except a skateboard has been found. I've heard rumours that he was selling drugs for the bikers and he's buried in a backyard.
Same type of situation happened at my high school. You should have seen the looks I got when I dared to question if the two popular students who passed away would be memorialized the same if it was a student who was unpopular.
Had to mourn? As in the school made mourning a mandatory event or some shit? I always hate when schools treat particular students with special treatment. When a kid died that went to my school they basically said “if you knew him you can take all the time you need” but like everyone else didn’t have to bother.
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u/tanukis_parachute 2d ago
popular girl died and whole school had to mourn. they hushed up she was drunk driving.
a not popular girl died and nary a word was said about her. she had CF. only got a * in the graduation book. they stopped the presses for the yearbook to insert a whole tribute to the popular girl.
wasn't a controversy to the popular people but, to us common folk... it was.