A high school senior at a Richmond, Va., public school was suspended after school authorities discovered a homemade “Death Note” containing the names of some of his classmates in his possession:
The student is a senior at Franklin Military Academy in the city’s East End. The principal there sent a letter to the parents after a teacher spotted the student reading a list of his classmates’ names in the book called “Death Note.”
The student who got in trouble was not in class today He’s suspended pending an investigation.
Senior April Hopkins says she’s friends with the student. “He doesn’t really say much, he just stays to himself,” she said.
Hopkins’ name wasn’t on the list, but some of her friends’ were. She says they don’t fear him, and neither does she.
Now waiting for more cases to surface, along with the inevitable moral hand-wringing, in three, two, one …
November 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Huh.
I’m one of those surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
“Moral handwringing”?
Right, because the concept of “loner listmakers” following through on their threats is unheard of, right Chris?
November 26th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Mark & Chris,
The sexual tension between you two is killing me.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
You know, this seems like a good thing to me. If someone wishes people to die badly enough that he’s taking some kind of action, writing their names in a book seems pretty minor.
We need a TV show where crazy teenagers exact revenge on people they hate by going to their school counselors and having a long talk.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
when 16 year olds and up decide to make a death note there’s something wrong with them, and their families, and the society that fosters such anger, hate, and depression in a young person.
I may have been pissed off about a lot at 16 but I never thought to kill someone, which is just about the most disgusting thing you can in life.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
the only thing I find upsetting about this is that when I was in high school, we had to think up our own ways of channeling our annoyance/hatred of our peers into non-violent ways.
teenagers today just have to (literally) take a leaf out of someone else’s book.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Mark — By “moral handwringing” I meant something along the lines of “Oh, what is this awful manga stuff that is corrupting our poor, innocent children,” which is almost surely what we’ll get if another one of these stories crops up, instead of “what was wrong with this kid that he kept around a list of folks he wanted dead?,” which is a more common sense question. I think the school was well in its rights to suspend the kid, though unfortunately it may only alienate him more. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:45 am
You know people at first think this stuff is a joke but when those kids start to die mysteriously of heart attacks you’ll be glad the Moral Majority was there to put a stop to it.