Oxnard teacher is still haunted by student's slaying

[Shana A]

Oxnard teacher is still haunted by student's slaying

Larry King was killed in Dawn Boldrin's junior high school class. On the eve of a pretrial hearing in the hate-crime case, the educator, who has lost her job, tells of her emotional descent.
By Catherine Saillant
July 19, 2009

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-boldrin19-2009jul19,0,108052.story?page=1

Dawn Boldrin took note when a subdued Larry King showed up for her class at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard dressed in his school uniform without the flashy boots and makeup.

The teacher heard he'd been roughed up the day before by boys put off by his effeminate manner. So, as she walked her eighth-graders to the computer lab on Feb. 12, 2008, she pulled him aside.

[NicholeW.]

It's a sad and true tale. Seeing someone else die is a very wrenching experience for most of us.

I imagine the admins have no idea. None.

How many troops in warfare return with the same problems? Cops on the beat? Citizens who have others shot who are next to them when the bullets fly?

All well and good to think "people can put it behind them." Some things are not so easily put to the side, or behind. Some things will travel a very long ways with the observer.

[tekla]

Some things are not so easily put to the side, or behind. Some things will travel a very long ways with the observer.

Agreed.  That is so because seeing them changes you.  You can't un-see it, your never going to forget it, and something very fundamental inside of you shifts.

[finewine]

Some things are not so easily put to the side, or behind. Some things will travel a very long ways with the observer.

Agreed.  That is so because seeing them changes you.  You can't un-see it, your never going to forget it, and something very fundamental inside of you shifts.

As someone who was in the 2004 tsunami (literally), I completely agree.