#school death

As a South Carolina community continues to mourn a 10-year-old girl who died following a reported scuffle with another girl, a state senator has apologized for her commentary surrounding the death of Raniya Wright.

Parents of the late Forest Hills Elementary School student are still searching for answers about what happened to their daughter on March 25. They were livid last week when South Carolina State Senator Margie Bright Matthews made alarming comments concerning the girl’s death. The statements were perceived as an attempt to defend local school officials and a substitute teacher who initially broke up the fight.

Police and school district officials have all repeatedly refused to provide much information to the grieving parents or the public, telling reporters that an autopsy and police investigation would take about two weeks to finish. But that did not stop Sen. Matthews from getting on a State Senate podium on April 2 and making a series of claims that Raniya’s parents quickly disputed.

Sen. Matthews attempted to dismiss claims from the girl’s parents that Raniya had frequently complained of bullying at school.

“I think it’s a case of a 10-year-old acting like a 10-year-old,” Matthews told the crowd, according to The Post and Courier. “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Oh, they were kicking her. They ganged her.’ None of that. That’s so far from the truth — not even the banging of (her) head. The head was not even an issue.”

No one?

tl;dr: I still hate lit. Also there are other aspects of school that are less than desirable at the moment. Also, fuck.

it seriously bothers me when people assume work correlates to grades.

my grades, i've discovered, are in fact in direct opposite order of how much work i do in them. as in, it's the classes for which i do no homework and rarely pay attention in class that i have the best grades in. and it's not because they're not hard classes. except choir. choir is easy.

speaking of, i wish i could switch percentage points across classes. as in, i don't need 104% in choir. i need a fucking A in fucking lit. this is far from the most optimal distribution of grade happiness.

saving all of my files under passive-aggressive terms mocking the assignment

doing well without doing as much work

This includes qualifying for league, APs, SAT IIs, final WAS Project, Meisters auditions, SAT prep, Junior Exhibition picked out, running at league and getting 8th in the 800 (which by the way is kind of awesome considering I barely qualified and scored our team a point) and then coming back on friday to also pr in the 1600 after being thrown in as an alternate at the last minute, didn't miss a week of either tap or skype sundays and pulled off the Interact car wash just fine. Even if I was late. Oh and made major decision regarding my summer and future and stuff (?). Happysigh.

Not even bothering to correct tense issues up there.

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