No thanks to hormones, friends, parents and the pressures of school, being a teenager is difficult. In New Hampshire, one high schooler resorted to creating her own "death list" to maybe deal with stress, taking apparent inspiration from the manga Death Note.
Parents at the Nashua High School were, of course, alarmed at the news that a death list exists in the school and that their children are part of it. School officials have met with the parents to address the issue, saying that they take the security of the children very seriously. Seventeen names were on the death list, complete with dates and times for how each death will be like. One parent was shocked to find out that her daughter's was "pretty horrific, disturbing and explicit."
Families were sent emails last week to inform them of the existence of the death list but many of the parents are saying that the students knew about it earlier. They simply didn't speak up because they were afraid for their safety, concerned that they would end up on the death list as well.
Danielle Charest's daughter was on the death list and she's angry that parents were not informed sooner. She said that a group of students stopped her in the hallway to say that they were afraid, hinting at the mood now at the high school. In fact, many of the students have decided to skip school once news of the death list broke out.
However, while making a death list is definitely something not parents would approve, those from the high school have expressed that they feel bad for the student.
"I'm sorry that you feel so sad ... so alone and alienated and wronged. As a mom, my heart breaks for her," said Charest.
The school administration is still investigating the matter and so have not determined the appropriate disciplinary action it will be enforcing. However, they have teamed up with counselors to work with the students and their families to help everyone feel safe again in the school.
This is the fourth time this year that a Death Note-related incident has occurred. The most recent one was in Connecticut in June.
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