A Weird Experience
A JTE (Japanese Teacher of English) just came over to me and said that she attended a funeral over the weekend for a former student. She then said that his parents weren’t saying how he died and that they said it was something about him falling down stairs or something like that. She also said she had heard people talking about how he had been found in his dorm room.
So, okay, that’s a bit weird. But then she says, he went to “nani-nani” university in America on an exchange and that’s where he died. So I’m like, ok. Then she’s says, “Here’s the website for this university. Can you see if it says anything about him?” So, I figure, ya, why not. I type the kid’s name and the state the university is located into google. BAM first hit the title of the article includes suicide…
The article doesn’t go into specifics but it does say that the kid (turns out, I taught him, cuz he was pretty young still) did indeed kill himself. Well, now this jte has told another teacher quietly and has printed out the article.
I find myself in quite an odd situation, as anyone doing a google search of just his name would have found that. But the fact that I’ve found it and now, the whole school will know that this kid killed himself, even though his family decided that’s not how they want it to go down.
So ya, I don’t remember the student, but that’s just weird right?
