shuttlebutt

so, I went to the house school and I was, oh, about 12 when this all went down. that woulda been 7th grade. i have a feeling i got in trouble for making light of the situation - this was, after all, what spawned the Need Another Seven Astronauts jokes. Janet Kretchmer was really pissed off at me for not setting a good example. I guess looking back on it all the teachers were freaked out because the whole school was crammed into a room watching the TV and there were crazy mixes of ages and levels of comprehension - how do you handle boys that think explosions are cool and kids that cannot even comprehend what death is. Such are the perils of the house school I guess...as I remember there were only 5 seventh graders at the time.