So I got some frantic text messages this week from my old workplace, the first school I ever worked at, that alternative transfer high school. Apparently there had been mayhem Monday morning.
This is what transpired:
Boy A approaches Boy B to buy drugs in the hallways. Boy B hands over the drugs, but then is careless and lets it show that he has much more in his bag and also about $500 in cash. Boy A sees an opportunity, pulls out a gun, and says, "Give me your entire bag and all your money." Boy B panics, screams to his friends for help. They run down the hallway, in hot pursuit of Boy A. Boy A flees, sees that there are a bunch of kids after him, points his gun, shoots. Boy B is shot and dripping with blood and makes his way to the principal's office before collapsing. Boy A by that time has run off in the mayhem.
Police come, it's pandemonium. A bunch of arrests are made, but somehow Boy A has slipped away. The next day, Boy A sneaks into school as if nothing happened. Teachers immediately recognize him as the shooter, and he is apprehended.
Now here is the scary thing. A quick check on Boy A reveals that he is free on $100,000 bond. His previous crime was stabbing two people in another school. Somehow, he was able to enroll in a new school without any of this information known to anyone.
When I first started teaching, a veteran teacher told me, "The ones who are always screaming and cursing at you are not the ones you need to worry about. They are all mouth. It's always the quiet ones who are the most dangerous."
All the teachers at my old school said Boy A had seemed so quiet and well-mannered. He comes from a foreign country, and spoke with this formal British grammar. Parents quite wealthy, enough to put up 100k in bond for him. But somehow, his trip through the NYC school system has included two stabbings and now a shooting.
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