Around Columbine, rumours started going around at my school that one of my friends was going to shoot up the coming assembly. He wore a trench coat but was just another dnd nerd and bullying wasn’t even bad at my school (this itself was probably about as bad as bullying would get). He was monitored during the assembly and a lot of people avoided it, but it was one of the few I went to. Obviously nothing happened during it.
Though my favourite assembly story from that school was about the time they absolutely wanted everyone to attend one. Many people would usually just leave the school during them, so on this day, they posted teachers at each door to keep people from leaving while others moved through the school and herded everyone to the gym.
I remember getting to the gym, thinking they had beat us, only to enter and see that the line of people going in didn’t disperse to the seats in the bleachers. Instead it continued on to the one door they forgot to guard: an exit from the gym itself.
I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when they got in to the gym only to find it probably less full than usual, since everyone exiting from right there probably made some who wouldn’t have normally left grow bold enough to do it. But I didn’t see their faces because I also left.
Then they just kinda gave up. Even though it would gave been relatively easy to fix the flaw in their plan, they never did try to block us in like that again.
Around Columbine, rumours started going around at my school that one of my friends was going to shoot up the coming assembly. He wore a trench coat but was just another dnd nerd and bullying wasn’t even bad at my school (this itself was probably about as bad as bullying would get). He was monitored during the assembly and a lot of people avoided it, but it was one of the few I went to. Obviously nothing happened during it.
Though my favourite assembly story from that school was about the time they absolutely wanted everyone to attend one. Many people would usually just leave the school during them, so on this day, they posted teachers at each door to keep people from leaving while others moved through the school and herded everyone to the gym.
I remember getting to the gym, thinking they had beat us, only to enter and see that the line of people going in didn’t disperse to the seats in the bleachers. Instead it continued on to the one door they forgot to guard: an exit from the gym itself.
I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when they got in to the gym only to find it probably less full than usual, since everyone exiting from right there probably made some who wouldn’t have normally left grow bold enough to do it. But I didn’t see their faces because I also left.
Then they just kinda gave up. Even though it would gave been relatively easy to fix the flaw in their plan, they never did try to block us in like that again.