But as a senior, he was one of those kids that just wore grubby clothes all the time, wore his hat back wards all the time…He was going to do the very least amount of work possible. He tried to talk me one time into letting him not have to come to class—just show up on the days of the tests. You have a choice.
You can come to class and stay awake, or you can drop the class. He was borderline. September 17, Period 3 calculus — December 1, Period 3 calculus — Use of class time needs to improve! Now, they were AP classes, advanced placement classes, but they still seemed low compared to what he should be doing.
Kriegshauser told Dylan to improve his grades and if not, he would have to come into the diversion office daily to do homework and compile a weekly homework log.
The math teacher noted that Dylan could use his class time more appropriately, and Dylan admitted reading a book during class.
Kriegshauser also confronted him on his math grade since comments from the math teacher stated that he could use his class time more appropriately. Kriegshauser wrote in the log. I told him to listen to himself and think about what he is saying.
It all sounds like he feels like the victim although he denies this. I was bothered to hear Dylan was slacking off, but not alarmed. Then I worried I was making excuses for Dylan, and I shut up. When I told the math teacher Dylan had been accepted at the University of Arizona, he seemed impressed and slightly surprised. She stated that an example of this would be Calculus where he did not like it so he did not complete his homework.
In regards to disliking any teachers, Robyn Anderson stated that Dylan Klebold did not like the Calculus teacher but added she also did not like him. She further stated they would joke about the Calculus teacher because of his high pitched voice but Dylan Klebold never said anything mean about him.
She further stated Dylan Klebold got into trouble several times because he slept in class. Anderson states that she recalls the date of the purchase of these firearms as being in December because she and Klebold were planning to study Calculus at his house because the finals for that class was December 16th and 17th with a make-up day of December I8th, Anderson believes that the date of the purchase would have to be December 13th, Robyn Anderson stated that since Dylan and she needed some calculus homework she followed him in her car up to his house.
Robyn Anderson stated the last time she talked or saw Dylan Klebold was on Monday, April 19, in their Calculus class which begins at approximately a. She stated she had been gone for a week and April 19 was the first day for her back at school since being gone. She continued by stating the last time she saw Dylan Klebold was after Calculus class on Monday when Dylan and another friend of hers by the first name of Joe were walking down the hallway after the class.
She stated that Joe had a class close to hers downstairs following their Calculus class together. She stated that Dylan would also walk with them for about a minute since he was en route to his Video Productions class and then he would turn off with Joe and her continuing on to their classes. She confirmed that was the last time she saw Dylan Klebold as he was walking towards his Video Productions class.
She further stated there were a lot of mornings that he was quiet but she attributed this to him being tired in the mornings. She stated it was not odd if he was quiet on most mornings although sometimes he was talkative. Friedman advised he had a calculus class with Klebold and a history and English class with Harris, Friedman advised that Klebold was always quiet in calculus class. He advised that Robyn Anderson often assisted Klebold with his calculus. He was very sedated, though Dylan was in trouble a lot for either being tardy or not showing up at all, then when he was there he would sleep in the class and the teacher would yell at him and embarrass him in class.
Jeffrey reported that he had noticed a behavioral change in Dylan the prior several weeks before the incident. He stated that Dylan was normally a very good student but had been falling asleep in the 2nd period class each day. The teacher kept threatening to throw him out of class if he fell asleep again but never did.
And there were times in that several weeks that Dylan appeared unusually hyper and full of energy. He notes the time while writing this passage: Hey, the dude was gifted but definitely not perfect.
Melissa Couris said that he had been in at least one of her classes last year and she knew who he was. She said that he wore a trench coat and sometimes he wore his sunglasses in the classroom. Pensive, quiet, an observer, not wanting what is offered here school, life, etc. Did you guys see the new upload from CVA? Quite an interesting find! Robyn later told a friend that Dylan behaved gentlemanly on prom night, complimenting her on her dress.
Jessica sat next to Robyn and Dylan during dinner at Bella Ristorante. There was a lot of silly joking between them, playing with knives and matches.
Dylan ate a big salad, followed by a seafood dish with shells, mussels she thinks, then dessert. He was there most Friday nights. Only this night, many of his pals had early-morning Saturday plans. Only two made it to the bowling alley, Dylan and Robyn. Robyn and Dylan were only ever friends — nothing more. I pretty much mention this in a few previous posts from this past month. Please check the archive for those posts. I think he dreaded it at first and was looking forward to it being over.
However, I think he found himself kind of pleasantly surprised in the midst of it all and by something he thought he would loathe so much. He was surrounded by some people he knew in the limo, some of which were part of the same gifted program in elementary school. They were all cutting loose and joking around. He was at ease enough with Robyn, enough to compliment how she looked and to hold hands with her as she initated that with him.
Celebration before death day countdown. He was going to do everything at that dance for the very first and very last time in his life, so why not?
Just let go. Dylan was with people that wanted to pull him in and get him to participate. Guys eat that sort of stuff up, and he was no exception. Then Robyn took him home.. I think that he meant that genuinely.. A white stretch limo.
A girl in a royal-blue prom dress and soft blonde curls. Prom night for Columbine. Hardly the outsider, he was one of a dozen dressed-up kids who piled into a limo and dined at a ritzy LoDo restaurant. Dylan wore a black tuxedo, a pink rosebud tucked into his lapel. His long wavy hair slicked back into an uncooperative ponytail.
His date was Robyn Anderson, now a valedictorian contender with her straight-A average. She asked him to the prom — just as friends. The radio was turned to a hard-rock station and on so low the kids drowned out the music. They were being, well, normal goofy teens enjoying themselves. Cameras flashing. Lipstick smiles. Whisking through the night in a mirrored-ceiling car. Read More. He liked that she appreciated his sense of humor and that he could just relax and feel at ease — just hang out and goof off.
I think Robyn saw Dylan as a friend but a very good friend. I get that she saw him as a really gentle, nice guy underneath the quiet exterior. At the time, Columbine was the deadliest school shooting in history. The attack drew worldwide attention, sparked a string of copycats, and changed the way law enforcement deals with shootings on school campuses.
Dylan was never diagnosed with a mental illness when he was alive, but experts, like Dr. Peter Langman, who Klebold interviewed for her book, have studied his journals and video recordings posthumously and said that he was depressed and possibly had schizotypal personality disorder.
Eric, who did go to therapy and was never diagnosed with mental illness during those sessions, is now believed to have had personality traits of a psychopath, writing extensively in his journals about wanting to kill and torture others. The best friends spent a year planning the Columbine attacks, including designating where to place bombs, which never detonated because of miscalculations.
They had a friend, Robyn Anderson, buy three firearms for them, because they were underage. And an older coworker at the pizzeria where they were employed bought the fourth gun used in the massacre.
In a recent study performed by MarieClaire. Klebold was not one of those women. On April 20th, one of Klebold's first thoughts was that maybe the news of the shootings was a misunderstanding, a prank gone wrong, because there was no way her son could've possessed a real gun. We didn't want them in our home or in our lives. But in my state of Colorado, a lot of people have guns, certainly in my own rural neighborhood, everyone had guns," she says. And we were actually beginning to look at property in other states, because we didn't think that would be a safe way to live, which is incredibly ironic to think what happened.
Because of the prevalence of firearms in their community, Klebold didn't think twice when her teenage son asked for a gun for Christmas or when a gun catalogue showed up in a stack of junk mail. It didn't seem that unusual for me," she says. It was like, no you're not getting that. Don't even think about it. In the aftermath of the attacks, the Klebolds and the Harrises kept quiet. The Harrises have still never spoken publicly.
Sue describes both she and her husband meeting with their lawyer the night of the shootings in the darkness of a convenience store parking lot, fearful for their own safety. There were lawsuits against their families within days. And the media immediately began questioning their parenting.
How could they have missed something so huge? Klebold says now that there are dots that she wishes she'd connected that indicated her son's depression. In their junior year, Dylan and Eric were arrested for breaking into a van, which Klebold says did pique her concern, but that he seemed to straighten himself out.
What else could he be doing? By the time he was a senior, he'd been accepted at four colleges. You come to a point that you trust that your children have come to a threshold of adulthood and there's not really much else you need to do in that regard.
But I was wrong. In writing her memoir, Klebold went through her old journal entries from before and after the shooting. Many of her writings in the weeks leading up to the attack paint the picture of an ordinary, happy family. In an entry dated April , she writes:.
We all focused on Dylan to get him ready for the prom. It was so cute. When Dylan got home late that night, he told his mom he'd had the best night of his life.
The shootings took place just two days later. A week before his suicide, Dylan was mapping out the dorm room he'd be moving into at Arizona State University and putting on a happy face for family dinners.
But in his journals, which his family didn't see until months after the shootings, he was contemplating suicide, writing about cutting himself and contemplating "going NBK," which stands for Natural Born Killers , the name of the Oliver Stone movie which he and Eric used as the codename for the attacks.
Klebold says she hopes the conflicting images of her son "helps [others] be more aware that people around them may be suffering, they may have despair, they may feel helpless and hopeless, but they may be working very hard to present that everything is fine," says Klebold, who has focused on suicide prevention in the wake of Columbine.
According to the American Association of Suicidology , between two and five percent of suicides are murder-suicides. In the years since Columbine, there have been 50 mass shootings at schools, according to the FBI , which Klebold says used to "reintroduce trauma for me. I just have a sense of being aware of the horrible ordeal that everyone affected by this tragedy is going to be going through.
And I just feel compassion for the people who have been injured, who have been killed, and also for the families of the perpetrators. I know they're about to embark on a very difficult journey, as well. Klebold wrote letters of apology to his victims' families, as well as to the survivors.
Klebold says she never reaches out to families of victims or perpetrators but that she's made herself available through therapists or friends of friends and that she has met some of the families of other shooters. She won't name which ones, in order to protect their privacy.
After her own son's shooting, Klebold wrote letters of apology to his victims' families, as well as to the survivors. One of those letters resurfaced last week. It was amazing," Klebold says.
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