What Was Your High School's Tragedy? (r/AskReddit Top Posts | Reddit Stories)

[@nivedlaxsea8114]

My senior year two of the twin boys in my class suffered an unimaginable year. The father was killed in October when he ran into the neighbor’s burning house to try to save the elderly man stuck inside. Driving home from college for their father’s funeral, the two older sons stopped to help a lady with a flat tire and were struck and killed by a drunk driver. The mother was diagnosed with brain cancer in January and passed away in April. These boys went from a family of six to just them in less than a year. They were some of the nicest and brightest kids you’d ever meet. One is now a pilot in the Navy and the other is trauma surgeon in the Army. I was never close to them but always had a special place in my heart for them. They handled the tragedies with grace and strength very few are capable of. I feel honored and undeserving knowing we have people like them serving in our armed forces.

[@ethelb6237]

Goldfinch that was gorgeous

[@kirstyburston2912]

Goldfinch bro I actually teared up at that that was beautiful

[@sebbi8762]

@Goldfinch that's the most perfect way anyone has said that, it really gave me a feeling of peacefulness.

[@Thomas-dr9nn]

fricking blessed comment

[@miabellamiranda34]

my heart goes out to them

[@taay_thegreat2057]

All four years in hs someone died ... we where all freaked out low key

[@Jellbells23]

Taay_ Thegreat That exact shit happened at my school, but the fucked up thing was it was always one person from each grade. So 4 people would die while you are in school, but one would always be a one freshman, one sophomore, one junior, and one senior it was creepy af like we all knew alright someone in our grade is gonna die.

[@leanchicken7]

Jolie McCallips *Oh shittttt*

[@rocc678]

*we're... Taay-san. *[Tilts Glasses]*

[@KiwiJuice420]

The one where the girl stomped on the pregnant girl’s stomach... I can’t believe we have such monsters walking on our planet

[@julesc_bubblegum]

Surprised she's walking free.

[@Lord_Of_The_WhoLock]

I know... people like that fill me with the darkest sort of despair, and I hate it...

[@A_Randomguy_]

​@@julesc_bubblegumthat should be a life sentence for murder

[@Justanotheruselessaccount]

Yes, the girl wasn't very bright but that doesn't mean you take it out on their unborn child

[@hxnniebxn5342]

​@@Justanotheruselessaccount what does her "not being very bright have to do with this"?

[@DosagePosage]

Also this wasn't high school, but our middle school theatre teacher who everyone knew and loved fell into a deep depression after his wife had suffered a miscarriage. He wasn't the same after that

[@brysonmorgan381]

This just happened, one of the most liveliest science teachers that everyone knew was just murdered on the 26th or 27th of December 2019 over Christmas break and we are making a memorial garden for her and the memorial services will be at the high school for her as well as a candlelight vigil at the fountains near downtown

[@johnjaeger2968]

One of my friends from German class went swimming with his family at the river. It's notorious for being a dangerous river, but it's fine if you stay in the shallows. Well, his little sister (five or six years old) went out too far and got caught in the undertow and he went to go save her while someone else went to find help. Help arrived in time to save his sister, but he died. He'll forever be 16, but he died a hero.

[@AWasteOfYourTime8205]

I'm sorry for your loss. But at least he was willing to risk his own life to save her. I'm glad she's alive, but she must be traumatized and/or has brain damaged

[@lisachiappetti6092]

This is pretty much exactly what happened to Naya Rivera. Honestly, both of them are heroes and they deserve to be remembered as such. Rip to both of them.

[@noethankslol7577]

My old principal defeated cancer, had someone carry her child, child was born, got cancer again, died when baby was less than 6 months old. Councelor office was open to anyone at anytime for rest of year

[@ErikGiovani]

Had a teacher kill him self because he had an affair with a student and got found out, had newborns and was overqualified to be even working there in the first place. Also 2 girls went to prison for life for extensively planning a school shooting. Also kid murdered his whole family, except for his sister who got away... on a school night. Welcome to Colorado Edit: I remembered like 4 more things but it’s just more death and tragedy so y’all get the point

[@ds5322]

Erik Giovani I live in Denver. Co has so many tragedies

[@oatmellodiodolo4442]

Yeah I live in Lakewood, maybe it ain’t as bad there but like, anywhere from golden to Denver isn’t near as bad as like Compton or Chicago or Detroit.. js

[@theleldaofzelda94]

Why do we always have tragedies?

[@eatabowloffuck8160]

I used to live in Colorado Springs. I remember some guy settings fire to his ex gf's apartment. It was freezing the night it happened. Lot's of ppl had broken ankles from jumping out of windows onto icy asphalt and shit.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

@Erik Giovani Sounds like there are bigger problems with the administration of the school that aren’t being addressed...

[@saff3792]

This girl called Ella Dalby was killed about a year ago now, and today someone made a diss track about her. Her mum was also stabbed multiple times by her boyfriend. Such a disgusting man. Edit: he also denies it all

[@user-pu2xu2iq9o]

Do you have the link

[@TheBrickBin-g6j]

Link?

[@katycookson2900]

I know I’m late but did the mum die?

[@butterflybunnyunicorn2518]

My classmate's dad killed the mom because he thought she was having an affair and then shot himself.

[@greenismyhappyplace7496]

That's very similar to what happened last year at my school the dad killed the mother, their daughter then himself

[@delysekarlas8375]

a plane hit my highschool, luckly only the sport area. 25 students died plus the pilot. later that day the mother of the pilot died of heart attack when she heard her son was dead. only 5 students and a gymteacher survived the crash. the rest of school was closed afterwards. and every year we remeber what happened and the ones who died.

[@louisaugustexvi4515]

Fake

[@delysekarlas8375]

youngdumbandbroke 11 nope this is my school nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christelijk_Lyceum_Apeldoorn plane crash

[@isabelleburguete4544]

delyse karlas you probably coulda clarified this was 74 years ago

[@fawkes9718]

@Landyn chudzik I think they just mean it was lucky that it only hit the sports area instead of hitting the school buildings and potentially killing hundreds more. But I acknowledge there is nothing lucky about this scenario as a whole.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

A car or SUV wrecked into the front section of the old version of my High School. This wreck did significant damage. The entire bldg was remodeled late 1990s mid 2000s if I recall.

[@abelhaluki103]

A friend of mine died in a pool. he jumped in, land the wrong way, and broke his neck. We were in the drama club together, and I had just seen him hours before. I heard about it and all the teachers lined the hallways. It still is hard to wrap my head around his death sometimes. He was in 8th grade when I was in 7th. He was the light of the whole school.

[@sophieboland2406]

A girl in the year below died during a match. She was perfectly healthy before and there were no warning signs. Turns out she had a brain haemorrhage. The whole school and community was devastated

[@tannerstull6490]

middle school, two high honor roll students went home and their mom gunned them both down, rest in peace Calyx and Beau Schenecker

[@ansleyelizabeth9569]

not high school but from kindergarten through middle school i attended a tiny private school, and by tiny i mean i graduated with 30 people in my grade. my 5th and 6th grade history teacher was known and loved by every student and teacher in the school. on the last day of 6th grade, she didn’t attend the graduation ceremony for the 8th graders. everyone was sad because they didn’t get to say goodbye before leaving for high school. over the summer, we found out that she had breast cancer and she was getting treated on the last day of school. at the beginning of my 7th grade year, we had an assembly praying for her and sharing our favorite memories. a few weeks later she passed away and the whole school was in shock. she had impacted so many students life’s. we all attended her funeral and spent the rest of our year remembering her in every way possible. love you mama t

[@anonymous.hippopotamus]

We also averaged about a death every year at my high school. I only knew two people, one who died, and one that almost died. Here's their stories. One was scared to go home because of an abusive step father. He decided to go to a near by cemetery with friends, where they were drinking some medicine in large quantities to get loopy and feel weird, as young freshmen try to do because they heard it would mess them up. The other friends went home, but my friend decided to stay out longer because he knew getting home that late would mean a beating. They tried to convince him to go with them, but he insisted. The way they got to the spot they were at, you had to cross over a large pipe that was over a rather small creek. As my friend went to leave, he fell, tripped maybe, something happened causing him to hit his head in the pipe, knocked him out, and he fell face down into the creek, where he drowned even though the water wasn't that deep. The girl I knew didn't die, but she was in a car accident with her friend who was driving. She was speeding, lost control, and slammed into an gated electrical unit. The car doors wouldn't open due to how they were wedged, and a fire started at the front of the car. Her friend was knocked out, but my friend just had some minor injuries. She popped the trunk opened, and was able to pull herself AND her friend out even with her injuries. When paramedics came, her friend was pronounced dead, due to the impact. This girl risked her life, pulling, and heaving out her friend to save her, even though she was already gone. Both stories still haunt me. To think, had a friend stayed that my friend would have been able to be flipped over out of the water. To think about how scared my friend must have been after the accident, and how hearing that news after trying to save her friend would have felt... I will never forget those stories.

[@marymohr2799]

We had a teacher in my Jr. High-school (2 of the grades were middle school, one was High School) that left before the end of the school year because he knew he was dying. I never met him, but before he passed he had taught there longer then anyone else, and was a pretty cool dude. I hope he's happy now, he deserves it.

[@nickverd742]

I'm late but hopefully everyone can see this. We had a kid bring a gun to the Middle school dance. Lets call this kid Jacob. Jacob got caught w/ it by another kid (We'll call this kid John). Jacob then got bailed out by his mother and a few days later, went to John's house and proceeded to shoot John's entire family. Everyone miraculously survived but only John was in critical condition. This happened a few weeks ago, and John is still in the hospital. For Jacob, however, he's still on the run and his whereabouts are unknown. The whole school found out via snapchat, and I had a few classes w/ Jacob. He was always one of those kids who always dug into their backpacks very creepily, but never thought of it. Best of wishes to you "Jacob"!

[@TheOzziemozzie]

best of wishes to the guy who tried to commit mass murder?

[@smellamyblake8352]

@@TheOzziemozzie They meant it sarcastically I think(hope)

[@TheOzziemozzie]

@@smellamyblake8352 i hope too lmao

[@MSS_2020]

At my middle/high school (shared campus), a retired teacher turned long term sub had a heart attack during a class and died a few hours later in the hospital. School really came together after that. He was a super nice guy. I swear he knew every kid’s name and was always smiling. 3 years later it still feels weird not seeing him in the halls.

[@d_a_n_a.]

We had a young Romanian girl who was in my school. She and her family were extremely poor and had terrible living conditions. Right before we got back to school in Junior year she got electrocuted to death while taking a bath because there were wires who fell from the ceiling above her. Her family came here to offer her a better and brighter futur. She just wanted to look good for this special occasion.

[@bellajay8466]

a teacher at my school comitted suicide during class. Apparently he was having a manic episode and after handing his students the test they were about to take he went into the empty classroom next door and jumped out of the window. This was 10 minutes after class started and I was late that day - I still feel so lucky to not have witnessed it - it must've happened right after I entered the building. school was cancelled that day.

[@graceelizabeth5616]

A few years before I got to my school a boy was shot several times after walking his friend home, to make sure she got there ok. They never caught who did it but it was assumed that whoever did it mistook him for someone else.

[@ugan2]

Middle school. Our gym class was divided between two teachers. One of them who was loved by both teachers as well as being the boy's track coach and his students had to take a year off due to being in an accident. He came back only to get into another accident and die later in that year. It was actually just at the beginning of track season and the team went on to only lose one game after that. Our middle school also had a ceremony honoring those who were in honor roll/school sports/school play. His fellow gym teacher who coached the girl's team couldn't get through the speech honoring him as they were good friends and so the captain for the boy's team had to finish and also present the players. It was a somber moment

[@hayhay3716]

My moms best friend killed himself when he was in 2nd grade. In 7th grade a girl was caught cutting in class. She also claimed she was pregnant after being raped (she wasn’t, my mother used to be best friends with her mother and I asked about it all)

[@gamerguy9066]

One kid was murdered outside of the school and his friend was paralyzed. One took a bullet to the head, died instantly. The other one is still alive but has been in a wheelcheer since the early 90s

[@sharonhockers7539]

The principal was absolutely amazing. She knew everyone's name in a school of 700 or so. She got diagnosed with breast cancer. She would visit classrooms, read books to little kids, and stay strong even when she was close to dying. When we found out she beat it. Everyone was extremely happy. She got pregnant with a baby boy. No, the baby boy didn't die. He was healthy and her and her husband named him Xander, I think. ... Three months later she got diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. It spread. But guess what? She beat it. .....or so doctors thought. she died that year in november. I remember it was the worst day of the school year. Everyone was trudging from class to class. People were sobbing in class. RIP Melissa Zahn, 1985-2017

[@TotallyNotALolicon]

1:06 That’s damn near the beginning of Final Destination

[@lilweedsea]

It’s always the super good people who get hurt and die, and that semi fact bothers me a lot

[@faitholivia7198]

Nicest kid at our school died in a car wreck after a party up a super curvy/dangerous road known in our town... First time he decided not to drive home drunk, turns out his DD was drunk too 😕 everybody at school was quiet, the hallways were silent.. I'll never forget hearing the silence on a Friday in Jr/Sr HS.. RIP Levi

[@dyedshirt3206]

in 4th grade, a kid died in his sleep after getting his tonsils out. i don't know many of the details but he was a really nice kid and everyone was very sad when it happened.

[@carlosr1176]

The Luby’s massacre. Teachers wife was shot. Students parents, etc.

[@DS-km9tl]

Aside from 3 suicides, one being by gun in our school's bathroom, I've witnessed other schools tragedies. 1. Freshman year: Lightning strikes a football field while football practice was going on, struck and killed one of my friends. 2. Senior year: a guy that I use to go camping with died in a car wreck.

[@pascal5566]

Not high school but German gymnasium. Allegedly there was a boy that was one year above me. When they went swimming in the town's public indoor swimming pool, he drowned. He jumped into the water and couldn't move no more. Nobody noticed in the first place that he was in danger because he was said to be a good swimmer. So I guess they noticed it when it was already too late. Our principal announced it in school and made us do a minute of silence. His death was being talked about in the newspaper but apart from that, nobody ever mentioned it. But I have way more stories like girls falling out of windows or people stabbing each other to death

[@ohdear1780]

My mom’s cousin was a principal. She died from cancer and all of the students put a rose in her office chair. It even hit the news. It was so sad and my mom wouldn’t stop crying for weeks. That was a couple of years ago...

[@kelsey4593]

This wasnt in highschool it was middle. I remember sitting in my math class during last period when the bell rang 10 minutes early everyone including the teacher was confused but since ither students were in the halls and leaving she let us go to 3 minutes go by and im just about to leave the school with my friend when we hear screaming and people running towards the exit behind us. I remember there being a huge circle and probably half of the whole school in one hallway. My english teacher was yelling at a 8th grader threatening to call the police and yelling at her for starting a riot. The whole school was told to go back to a classroom. My friend and i went into the nearest classroom and stayed there for 30 minutes til we were finally let out. My friend goes into her grandmas car and i meet up with my other friends who were going to walk home with me. We were chasing each other having fun when another student (im assuming its one of my friends friend cause they seemed to know each other) tells us that we have to get off school property or we might be arrested and that theres officers and ambulances surrounding the school. My friends and i thought it sounded ridiculous and didnt believe him until i turned around to see 3 police cars and 2 ambulances. My friends and i ran home and i told my mom what happened. About an hour after i got home my friend tells me what happened. Get ready....ahem 4 fights, 3 people were jumped, principal tried to break up a fight between 8th graders and was pushed down the staires, a girl brought a gun and took it out in the halleay which caused the riot and stuff, oh yea and a a girl stabbed another girl.....did i mention this all happened in 6th grade? Dont believe me look it up we are on google :)

[@CharlesPanigeo]

I went to school with a family that suffered a carbon monoxide leak at their house in the middle of the night. There were 4 kids, an older daughter and a set of triplets. One of the triplets never woke up.

[@funnywelshman6380]

My high school woodwork teacher was a lovely quietly spoken man who was admired by everyone whether it was staff or students and was the sort of giy you could talk to in confidence. When his wife of over 20 years passed away from a lengthy battle with cancer the whole school organised a special fundraiser and installed a memorial for his wife

[@rocc678]

I like how this is a sad video, but there's cheerful music playing in the background HA, 69 LIKES, keep it this way! Do not like my comment unless we're going to 420, or 666, maybe 360. Also this was Edit 1

[@ozyf]

Rock such a messed up thing to like but ok

[@rocc678]

@@ozyf i don't like it, I'm basically just pointing it out. Why in the fookin fook would I enjoy happy, jolly, music over stories of niggas (don't worry bro I'm brown on the inside of me, you gotta chop me up) dying?

[@lmao.3661]

kind of fucking edit is that

[@kaseywulff7847]

I’m a junior and we’ve had a tragedy each year so far. Freshman year a girl tried to kill her self in the bathroom, sophomore year a guy killed himself, this year a freshman died of a drug overdose. It’s a yikes and there’s a lot of totally fucked up and depressed here. Hoping next year nothing happens but it’s been a trend for the past ten years :(

[@DonkeyKickingMC]

1:06 Sound like the beginning of Final Destination.

[@susiesparkles514]

At my school two seniors who were bf/gf were going to see a college with the girls parents. It's was icy/snowy and her dad was driving. The two kids were in the backseat and mom in passenger seat. Dad lost control and crashed. Both parents survived and both teens were killed instantly. Very very sad. I can't imagine being those parents.

[@gailpippin9761]

Attended a private all girls boarding school grades 8 through 12. We obviously all knew each other. One of the girls was DB - a truly nice person. We were graduated in May, '75. Independence Day that same year, she was attending a fireworks display with her fiance when a sudden, very serious windstorm blew in from Lake Erie. She and her fiancé ran towards a cement pavilion for shelter but never made it because a huge oak tree was uprooted, crushing them both. I couldn't attend the wake because I kept melting down. Such a waste!

[@greenbees3193]

This kid had a crush on me and I rejected him, as he was like 2 years younger then me. He jumped in front of a car and broke his leg pretty badly.

[@sayumiranasinghe8408]

why am i spending my christian eve watching depressing reddit videos

[@queenbootlegconcerts7319]

In the 5th grade there was this kid named Marcus... He was one of the most charming and happy people I have ever met. Band class had just finished up and the teachers came in, crying. They had announced his Sister, Father and him were is a car crash. His sister survived. R.I.P. 2008 - 2019

[@neonicon4447]

One of my best friends died this year in a car wreck, it was our third day of senior year

[@eclipsabutterfly4791]

I went to a ghetto high school and there was like one student death every year I was there. But in my senior year, this one girl who was a year below me died in gym class. She ran on the track and went into cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead when she got to the hospital. The worst part, she was supposed to go to an assembly in the auditorium for juniors at that very moment. If she remembered to go to the assembly, she probably would have still been alive.

[@emom001]

recently a security guard at my school passed away like four days ago in a house fire :/ he was the most favorite one i’ll miss him a lot and i miss him saying good morning to me :/

[@jack-5699]

2 weeks ago my friend's older sister (who was 16) died of the flu. It was really unexpected and sad. I know the family closely and their mother is the sweetest little Filipino lady. We had a half day off of school so the staff could go to the funeral.

[@Orng69]

Wasn’t in high school but in primary our y6 teacher passed out infront of everyone she later died in hospital due to a heart attack. What’s scary is that everyone thought the ambulance was a visitor until a year 5 told everyone. There’s now a bench for people to remember her. Now the new teacher was a bitch. Great

[@eyesofhorus]

My HS and neighboring HS has lost a total of 9-10 students in the past three years. 3-4 in a single car crash, 2 separate murders, and 3 suicides. We’ve lost almost 3 students a year.

[@SLOburn171]

My buddy Drew was shot in the back by his step dad on Christmas morning. He always had a big smile on his face and got along with literally everyone and he would always say “Get on my level bro” haha…See you down the road Drew✌🏻

[@gamester512]

I was in 6th Grade when this happened, but the school I went to combined Middle & High School, with the left side of the building being the High School, and the right side being the Middle School. The summer before I started 6th Grade my best friend (who was more like a brother to me than a mere friend) had to move away when his father's job transferred him to another state, and despite my best efforts we lost contact and haven't seen or spoken to each other in 18 years, and I can still remember crying myself to sleep the day he moved away. Then, once I get into 6th Grade, I meet this new kid and we really hit it off, and I start to think that maybe I've found someone who can help to at least partially fill the void left by my best friend's absence. Just a really nice and friendly kid all around, and clearly well-liked by everyone else in class. Then, one morning as my mom is driving me to school on her way to work, my mom overhears the local news mentioning my school and draws my attention to it, and they were talking about a student at my school who had died, though I did not hear them mention the name. To this day, I'm still haunted by what I said to my mom in response: "It's not going to be anyone I know." ....I was wrong. It was my new friend. The school cancelled all classes and homework that day, and gave us a lot of leeway over the next week or so as we all tried to process what had happened and as we grieved and mourned. That was about the only day I can remember being at that Middle School where I didn't get bullied. I cried my eyes out through the entire day, and the other kids just gave me my space and let me grieve. I was still crying when I got off the bus to go home, and my dad was there waiting for me when I walked in the front door, and he likely saw me crying and thought I'd been bullied again. When I told him what had happened, he just hugged me and held me until I had no more tears left to shed. I later found out that he'd been with another friend of his, who was a 10th Grader at the same school, the day before. And his friend found a handgun lying on the ground that later turned out to have been stolen, and in the process of trying to unload the weapon, it discharged and shot my new friend in the head, killing him instantly. I still feel horrible to this day for that 10th Grader as he now has to live with the guilt of knowing his friend is dead because of him. Rest in Peace, Rourke. We may not have known each other very long, but you helped brighten my life up when I needed it the most. ----- Unfortunately that's not the only tragedy to happen at my school that year, though the other did not directly involve me. It involved two twin brothers, though I knew them, we didn't really get along so we weren't friends in any way. Then I learn to my horror one day that their father had committed suicide. He'd hung himself, and he did it in such a way that his body would be the first thing the twins saw when they walked in the door. I was absolutely horrified when I learned what had happened, and I wanted to say or do something to try and comfort or console them, but I didn't know what I could say or do that wouldn't just cause me to inadvertently rub salt in the wound.

[@EightJane]

He was loved by everyone, always happy go lucky, respectful, easily excited by the simplest things. I know its cliche but honestly he was the life of the party. Willinging to do anything just to make someone laugh and brighten their day. He was murdered 11 days after his HS graduation. He was my cousin and my mom was the one that had to tell his family. I was alright at the funeral until my sister got up to give a speech, they were in the same class and were as close as siblings. She barely said 3 words before her voice cracked and she started bawling. Still makes me cry just thinking about it

[@sandydog426]

We had a surprising amount of tragedy for a small school. A classmate in my 11th grade year committed suicide, a boy in 10th grade was skateboarding and was fatally hit by a car, and a group of about 4 seniors was in a car accident, killing one of them. It's sad to look back on it now that i'm older and realize just how young they all were.

[@bau_lady8424]

1:03 That’s some final destination ish

[@louisaugustexvi4515]

The final destination crash is based off twa flight 800

[@louisaugustexvi4515]

But the story is someone who went to montoursville high because that actually happened, and the memorial garden is real with thr angel statue

[@AmandaNOTMandy]

This happened when I was in 11th grade. A very nice counselor who worked at the HS for years was accidentally crushed between her car and another car... when getting groceries from her trunk..the other car rolled back unexpectedly.

[@tristenrodrigue7998]

At the elementary school in my city, I was in high school and it was Christmas break, 2 little kids died from drowning, worst part was my stepdad was the one that had to pull them out of the water and it made National news

[@emerybonner7973]

A girl at my high school committed suicide a day before spring break. I didn't know her at all, but I can still remember seeing a lot of students crying and going to the guidance office. Many went to that office, but many others sought out the school resource officer. I found out later that initially, the officer was not going to come in that day (I am not sure what the reason was, so, please don't ask) but when he was informed of the suicide, he immediately rushed to the school, and asked the staff to inform students that he would be in the cafeteria if they (the students) needed someone to talk to. He spent the whole day just trying to comfort students. I am pretty sure the officer contacted a number of parents to come pick up their kids because classes were noticeably smaller.

[@mkellyy]

guy killed himself in my high school. was never told the reason but he was a star athlete and seemed happy in general. he died over spring break.

[@karmen3652]

a kid at my school committed suicide after school when he went home. he had a lot of siblings that went there too. we had an assembly that was about suicide. a lot of students broke down from that. it was really sad. then later that year, a student died from a car accident on his way to school. he was popular, smart, had a lot of friends. his closest friends couldn't come to school for a couple weeks dealing with all that. then, the p.e coaches dad passed away due to a heart attack. he was well known around school. cheering at football games, popping into classrooms during school, great guy. that year was hard.

[@Rose-mg5eq]

A very pretty and sweet girl in my class lost her mother to breast cancer, and found out shortly after that her father had brain cancer and one year to live. He luckily lived longer just passed this last year and I still think about her from time to time and hope that she is well.

[@juliasheehan6011]

Before I got to my current high school, a girl who had just graduated passed away from MS. She was an amazing student, Ivy-bound. She was in the top 3% students in the nation. We have a lab named after her. I was never in class with her, but she showed me around at an open house. Sweetest girl.

[@juno_likes_stars3085]

I'm a sophmore and one of my sophmore friends was run over in a hit-and-run yesterday morning. She died about nine hours after she was hit. I saw the accident and I watched her dye in her mom's arms. We had an assembly today about it in school. A few of her friends whom she wasn't very close to talked about how good of a person she was. The school decided to play a montage of some pictures off her social and from the yearbook. I cried the whole time

[@aebeeceeonetwothree1377]

I don't know you but I know what it feels like to loose someone close to you. Be strong♥️

[@tkmcnichols]

eighth grade, a kid at my school died of cancer. that was a sad day, rip omar💙

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

My high school had a small senior class. A senior died, car crash 6 days prior to high school graduation 🎓 . Sad. He drank a lot at a party & was in his car, died ☠️ at the scene.

[@mackenziehealy5379]

It's not high school, but in middle school, a guy in my grade got shot by his older brother's drug dealer. He got shot 4 times while he was hanging out with friends. The guy ended up being paralyzed because a bullet hit his spine. He's okay, but the friends he was with that day that witnessed their friend get shot still won't talk about what happened.

[@asdfghjkl1866]

a rlly nice science teacher's daughter died on Christmas eve due to a car crash. the teacher was rlly nice, before and after but she would just randomly cry and it was heartbreaking

[@bb22602]

Not a student at our school but he dated one of our classmates. He worked nights at a gas station near the interstate. About a week before graduation, he was robbed and murdered while at work.

[@smellamyblake8352]

In my high school, one person died each year. Freshman year, a boy shot himself. Sophomore year, a boy hung himself. In my junior year, a guy was in a car accident. And my senior year, my friend killed himself. When my sister was in high school, two boys died her senior year. One of them committed suicide in the nearby forest, and the other one was shot at a gas station one night in a case of mistaken identity. Bonus was a guy who one morning was sitting on the back of a pickup truck in the parking lot when the car started moving. He fell off and busted his head open. Paramedics were called, he was screaming this horrible high pitched scream, blood everywhere, started seizing. Ended up in a coma. He survived, returned to school and was expelled for writing the n-word on the bathroom stalls with chalk.

[@-butterfly-1452]

There was a boy in my first period class that went missing for a few weeks. Everyone was scared and wanted him to live, especially me. The police finally found his body, but it was in a chimney. And I was waiting to be picked up when I heard the news officially. I wasn’t super close to him, but he wasn’t bad at all. There were a lot of rumors going around about what could’ve happened before it was confirmed where he was. Someone said that he was killed by his parents, however the death was accidental.

[@clarawdk]

Gosh this is the second time I read about this story in the comments 😧

[@Lily_of_the_Forest]

The first story about the kind school secretary, I hope the students wrote in a journal their best memories of her for the baby to read when he/she is older. So very sad.

[@currier207]

In ninth grade, my history teacher died in a tragic car accident on Christmas Eve. He smashed into a tree with his pick up truck with his dog. Luckily the dog was OK, but sadly he died. Rest in peace Mr. Folsom

[@xtonibx5770]

Not HS but when I was in 2nd grade, a kid I knew was crushed by a water truck along with his 1st grade brother while they were in the car. We made cards for their mom in class after that. They were buried in the same coffin.

[@jessh8761]

Last year my boyfriends good mate was killed in a car crash with his own brother behind the wheel while coming home from school, ever since that evening there was a vase of flowers replaced every day and a picture of him sat at his desk, which was next to my boyfriends. Along with a memorial at the front of the school. As a death usually is, this was such a shock to the school and the community as we live in a small country town where nothing much ever happens, tragedies like this are extremely rare. I didn't know much about the guy, because he passed away about a week before I came to the school. But my boyfriend described him as the most caring, humble dude he's ever known, and that alone bought me to tears. At the end of last year, we had an assembly, where a memorial was shown for him. My boyfriend honestly teared up and I held his hand through the whole thing. It was so sad. Rest In Peace, Campbell, I never got to know you but I hope you're doing well wherever you are. You are missed dearly.

[@ninomitchell2039]

A kid i knew died of ewigs sarcoma a couple years after he graduated. On top of that, almost a dozen people in my area had it in the last decade (him included) even though its a relatively uncommon cancer (about 1.5% of childhood cancers and 1% in adults). My area has a toxic waste dump that most people would cite as a likely reason. The township says it's not the case but, for reference, it's big enough that chemist Mary Curry came to my town to study the dump so most people wouldn't be surprised if it was the reason.

[@luanagacha6445]

Principale got cancer. He fought it for three years. In the end,he felt better,but still retired early, because he realized how short life can be. Five days later, he's found dead. Cancer wasn't gone. It killed him and the whole school was sad. He made the school a better place. Made partnerships with schools in seven other countries so that we were able to make exchanges with them. That happened last year shortly after summer. We still don't have a new principal and the school is going pretty much downhill

[@ellisamarieisme]

My sophomore year, a girl overdosed at a party over the Thanksgiving break. She was a senior, and very popular and well loved. Unbeknownst to me, an old friend of mine had been dating her, and she kind of fell off the rails after her death. Got into drugs, skipped school, barely graduated. I finally found out about it through a Facebook post 5 years later. The girl accidentally OD’d face down, choked on her own vomit. She got her own page in the yearbook. Just goes to show you, no one wins with drugs, except for your dealer. Our school actually had a ton of problems with drugs, one kid actually OD’d in class. Shot up in the bathroom, came back, and seized. Thankfully he lived, but was arrested and sent to rehab. And some kid actually had a pound of weed in his locker and the school security found it during a locker inspection. Used dogs and everything. Expelled and arrested. Guess that’s APS for you.

[@florakuu]

not my story but my cousins, every month of the school year someone was stabbed to death in the study hall which was the 2nd building where there are no cameras. this went on for 4 years, this is a huge school with almost 5000 students, so at my cousins graduation (2018) they were done calling everyone up, and then this guy that was graduating. walked up and confessed to every single murder. he Said every single name, why he did it, and then in the end we realized how MANY people he killed. [note: he stabbed, raped, cut up, ATE (a bit of the person) and left the people there with no trace, no dna left behind, but he left a note at the end of each year saying the murders, three people weren’t found until he confessed they were in the woods near the hs] the police were called but weren’t going to able to get there until 15 minutes bc no dispatcher was close enough so they sent the one closest. no one knew what to do bc of the shock. then as we stand there I realize there is a serial killer, serial assailant, and serial rapist, a whole cannibal just there, he explains everything and in the span of those 4 years he killed 40 people at school, and raped over 70+ people including his victims from school and outside of school. he has always suffered with mental illnesses and adhd. but when the police got there they arrested him and we all got the news a month later he was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole, and was convicted with 44 counts of murder, 22 counts of rape, and 1 count of sexual battery. this is a lot Ik sorry 😳

[@EmilleeC]

Flor Figueroa THATS SO CRAZY OH MY GOODNESS

[@A-wish-for-the-night]

Articles/proof?

[@joelsterling1445]

that is what I call a monster

[@gebryela8075]

ok i have 4 bc my school is that bad 1 - a mutual friend of mine that has been bullied for as long as i can remember became home schooled bc she couldn’t take it anymore. the next year, she was shot and killed in a church shooting. our school had a presentation for her and when we came back to class people were still making fun of her. 2 - multiple players on our football team raped other members of the team with a flashlight and mop (like from 13rw) and half of them went to jail while half of them are now seniors still going to school. 3 - a girl tried to commit suicide from hanging herself in the bathroom but luckily another girl walked in right as the first girl was about to die. she girl who almost died was harassed the next few weeks. 4 - a beloved science teacher with a pregnant wife and a two year old was found sexting a sixth grade girl [happy part - the students made meme pages about it they were super funny lol]

[@FTWTACOSWTF]

One of our teacher's who was also a football coach committed suicide during my senior year of high school. He was one of those teachers that every student loved because of how awesome of a guy he was. He was an amazing person, father, and always looked out for you.

[@cassiecorona6350]

the one about the guy who raped the special needs girl shattered my heart

[@Alyssa-d2f]

I wouldn't say it's really a tragedy but this happened 2 years ago. 3 brothers, senior, junior and freshman. The senior was arrested for having sex with an 8th grader when he was 18. He had recorded it and it leaked to all his friends and it was on the internet for a short period of time. The junior out of nowhere committed suicide. He was your typical popular guy and had never said anything that would make you think he'd do it. The majority of the junior class and a few people from other grades didn't show up to school for the next few days. The freshman was expelled because he forced nudes out of a girl in his grade and then showed everyone in our middle and high school. People laughed at her when she passed by them (which you'd expect) but once guys started touching her inappropriately when she passed them in the halls or catcalled her she left and never came back. That all happened within a few months and they moved schools but the next school year we heard about the freshman had been arrested for threatening to shoot the school on the second day. There was a whole investigation on him. There was also a 5th grader who was their sister and she looked miserable all the time. Haven't heard anything about them since the freshman was released from juvie last year.

[@cyborgdandelion]

18:34 this happened at the middle school I was supposed to go to when I was in 5th grade. RIP Dale.

[@lillypalmer144]

I also had this happen in 8th grade. I am still in eight grade. It happened a month and a half ago.

[@conversionzxd4145]

Never knew her (happened before we went to high school) apparently she was a very nice person but was bullied. She handed in her maths homework and that night she took her own life. The maths homework - has been on the wall for the 3 years since it happened. R.I.P ❤️

[@ihavemoreshipsthanthenavy99]

I had a super friendly Maths teacher in my junior year of high school who was always very concerned with the students' well being. Even in the next year, when we had another teacher for Maths, she would always have a friendly conversation with my friends and me whenever we saw her. A few days after I graduated, she comitted suicide by driving her car onto a train track and waiting for a train to come. She left behind two sons, who were also going to that school.

[@outtamymindyt]

Last year a boy was the youngest victim in the uk to gang related knife crime, was stabbed by some older guys and left to die alone in the street

[@alma0123]

When I was in 10th grade, one of the teachers at my school died unexpectedly during Christmas Break. I didn't personally know her, but everyone she taught said she was such a sweet soul. This other story didn't happen at my school, but Hungary is a small country and this was a very big tragedy. They were on a skiing trip in Italy, and were already on their way home when they had a terrible crash and almost 20 people died on the bus, and several others were seriously injured. It was such a shock for the whole country, I remember for days it wasn't even clear who made it out alive and who didn't. One of my classmates little brother was on the bus, he thankfully survived, but another classmate's friend didn't. It was devastating. Our school was located fairly close to theirs, and our whole school marched to their school through the city center to pay our respects and light candles. They even shut down the traffic for us. By far the most painful experience I had, even though I wasn't personally involved. Can't imagine, what it might've been like for those, who knew them.

[@katiejohnson898]

a few months ago a kid died and 2 were charged with accidental manslaughter or something like that. the 2 kids stole a gun out of someones car near the school, and went to school with the gun. at 3:30 that day after school the 2 kids had a friends over. the 2 kids states playing with the gun and accidentally shot the other kid. he was a senior and captain of the football team. i didn’t know him but he made everyone so happy and it makes me cry. the school raised over $30k in days for his family. that week we also had a gas leak or something and had to stand in freezing weather and then go back into the school because of freezing weather and there were firefighters everywhere.

[@tudorjason]

My high school is located in a rather rural area. It's boundary is wide-reaching. It's Washington state, so there's trees everywhere, creating shadow and hiding black ice often. Every year I attended there, not necessarily only in winter, at least two students died in car accidents driving to school in the morning.

[@alexv6229]

2 weeks into graduation a classmate died in a car crash, i had passed by the crash the night before too. Next morning it was supposed to be “cap and gown” day for seniors. It was supposed to be a happy day. They made a “support group” in the library for kids who needed to grieve and shit like that. During graduation they still named him, the mom walked the stage for him and picked up his diploma. I dont know what happened to her afterwards, if she moved away or stayed, but from what I know he was the only person she had in her life.

[@alexv6229]

Oh and just recently like a week ago, same high school but ofc im not in it, 15 y/o was gunned down in a drive by a few minutes away from school

[@cg0825]

My graduating class was the first in many years to not have someone die during their 4 yrs of high school

[@denaenaeee]

Two students at my school died within months of each other. If anyone is interested all of these stories are on Mlive.com. Just search there’s names then type MLive if you want more info. First a kid named Ben Pierce. Really nice guy, athletic and popular. Everyone loved him. The school year these happened (my sophomore year) we had our first hour class together and he sat at the desk directly in front of me. He would always make everyone laugh. Monday morning, we went to school and I was wondering why he wasn’t in class bc he was always on time. Few minutes into the hour our teacher read an email sent out about his death. I was in so much shock and so upset, it was hard knowing why he was not in his seat. He and his friends were messing around on top of a parking structure and he fell off head first and died. He had a public funeral that I attended and we wrote in chalk all over the school concrete to honor him. Then Laura Burns. She fell off of the same parking structure Ben fell off of and it was ruled a suicide (I don’t think it was a suicide bc on her snapchat it was clear someone was w her that day). This all happened within out a month or so of each other. I was already depressed bc of personal issues but these broke me. Now Justin Tang. This kid didn’t go to my school but he went to a school in the area, he was crossing the street one morning to get to a bus stop catch a bus to get to his school, this bus stop was right in front of our school. It was a dark foggy morning and he was hit by a car. The cars headlights weren’t on so he had no way of seeing and the person driving wouldn’t see him either. He died on his way to the hospital. I hated going to school at this point bc I was just sooooo depressed bc of all this death. So sad. None of these kids should’ve died.

one of my closest friends committed suicide in my neighborhood last year. i honestly hadn’t experienced death until that and boy did it hurt.

[@pm6313]

Its 0140 AM and I'm watching some reddit related videos.

[@p.d.l7023]

I got one: Four students were driving on the backroads, hit a tree, all died. I have to drive those same backroads at least once a week. Even for a driver as skilled and experienced as myself, those backroads are very dangerous. My theory is that they served away from a moose.

[@DarkShadowman67]

first story reminds me of a tutor we had in high school. she was a fabulous woman. it meant a lot to the family that so many students showed up. fly high mrs whitten :)

[@TheTrekkie42]

The chaplain disappearing made me real nervous for a second. Never been happier that the answer was cancer.

[@nickcoryell2516]

My school blew up going into freshman year, literally 3 weeks before school started for the year. The whole middle of the school was in rubble and it had to be rebuilt and we went to a temporary school. Two staff members died and it was crazy and sad.

[@rosevampire3755]

A boy at my school jumped in front of a train. I didn’t know him personally but it was crippling to the people who did know him and the school ground to a halt for about two weeks.