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Here's pictures of the kids and a little video that a girl made for her dad... (Original Post) IcyPeas May 2022 OP
OMG I'm bawling right now ... Hugh_Lebowski May 2022 #1
I didn't notice that at first. BigmanPigman May 2022 #3
Well, there could be other explanations I guess Hugh_Lebowski May 2022 #4
I just added one more picture collage... IcyPeas May 2022 #5
Thanks for your work on this incredibly sad post, this has got to be rough Hugh_Lebowski May 2022 #6
I stopped teaching right after Sandy Hook. BigmanPigman May 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author YoshidaYui May 2022 #7
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. OMG I'm bawling right now ...
Wed May 25, 2022, 02:37 AM
May 2022

This is fucking CRUSHING.

Wow.

Obviously (edit: should've said possibly) targeting females, too. No way around it given the numbers.

This is just so, so bad.

Goddamnit.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. Well, there could be other explanations I guess
Wed May 25, 2022, 02:47 AM
May 2022

This is not everyone so if the rest were all boys the number wouldn't be so far out of whack.

But say this ratio does hold up, there'd have to be, like ... classrooms with way more girls than boys for some reason he just happened to run into ... or something similar that would naturally increase the odds.

Or maybe there's just more girls at this school overall.

You'd expect very close to 50/50 if it was random targeting, put it like that. From this thread, it's far enough from 50/50 to make me suspicious he was targeting females.

IcyPeas

(21,904 posts)
5. I just added one more picture collage...
Wed May 25, 2022, 03:00 AM
May 2022

Looks like 6 boys in the collage. Note it says some of these kids are "missing".

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. Thanks for your work on this incredibly sad post, this has got to be rough
Wed May 25, 2022, 03:15 AM
May 2022

Guess what I mean is, if it turns out to be 6 male victims and 13 females (among the children), that will definitely be lopsided enough that one has to at least SUSPECT ... females were his preferred target.

Unless the school has a lot more girls period, or he happened into classrooms that had more females, for some reason.

These pictures and beautiful young faces are just devastating to look at

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
2. I stopped teaching right after Sandy Hook.
Wed May 25, 2022, 02:40 AM
May 2022

This breaks my heart. I'm so glad I don't have to plan how to defend and protect my 1st graders any more. This is very stressful on teachers who are already stretched to their limit with Covid remote learning and anti-mask parents and a zillion other issues not related to teaching.

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