Interview Blog 2


Nora Mayral Boyle
Dr. Roddy 
IHSS

The second person who I conducted the interview with had the same role as the person I first interviewed- a student at Bellaire. She had left school around 4:00, right before the incident happened. Her last class, algebra, was right next to where the shooting happened, but she was picked up almost right after class ended. While in the car, her friends started blowing up her phone, asking if she knew what happened, if she was okay. She was confused, but when she got home, she turned on the news and saw what happened. They had to go back really soon after, and even though she hadn’t been there during the incident, she disliked going back. “Even though I hadn't been there, I felt really unsafe going back, especially so soon after. I didn’t want to be in such a public area, so open and exposed.” The first few days after, they did bag checks, for like 4,000-5,000 of the students. The first day after, it was incredibly thorough, and although time consuming, and difficult, it felt safe, and thorough. As the days went on, it became much more rushed, and it stopped, and just reverted to its previous situation. Within a week,  it seemed to pass. “It passed so quickly. People seemed to just go back. Not much has changed since it happened. It changed in only, like a week. The  first week there was a memorial mural, but after a week later it wasn't there. People are moving on… The school is definitely brushing past it. It's really disappointing because a life was lost, and people are just trying to go back to normal”
It's always gonna be there… I mean next year, kids are gonna talk about it, you know, to the new freshmen, but the school is moving on, the mural is never coming back, there's not going to be any more speeches or anything.” To her, even though she wasn’t there while it happens, she still feels like it affects her today. “It definitely still affects me today. I walk in and I think about the kid who died. I walk in and i feal so unsafe, fear goes over me, and you know anything can happen.” She feels disappointed in how the school has reacted, and felt like the school could’ve prevented it. The doors were always unlocked, and ever when they were locked, people would knock and kids would just let them in. To her, this incident should’ve been a wake-up call for Bellaire, a motion for change, but nothing really has.

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