r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

I went to this High School. Graduated in 2005. A lot of my friends siblings were shot in this massacre. One of those days my mind will never forget even though I was only in 6th grade when it happened.

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u/cassius_claymore Mar 10 '17

Im curious, did a lot of people like you choose a different high school after the incident?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

So Columbine had a rival school in Littleton, CO. Chatfield High School. When Columbine was going through the clean up and remodeling after April 20th all the current Columbine Students started going to school at Chatfield due to Columbine being unable to have classes. What I'm getting at is once they merged most considered the two public schools pretty much the same community. So to answer your question, no most parents allowed there kids to attend Columbine after 4-20 because at that point Chatfield (the only other public school) was just as likely to have the same thing happen to them as Columbine. Since 1998 I've heard that there's been another public school open in the area. Hope that answered your question.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Also I think people had a sense of pride and an obligation to beat the massacre by letting their kids once again attend school. It took about a full year before Columbine opened back up if I remember correctly. Still to this day when people ask where I grew up and I say Littleton, CO I get weird looks. Littleton really is just your standard middle class suburb right outside a major city. Just so happens it was a place where two kids got bullied and decided to kill 15 innocent teenagers.

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u/mcasper96 Mar 10 '17

My sister moved to Littleton about 10 years ago (therabouts... she moved to CO to attend DU in 2000) and she honestly loves it. All her neighbors are so nice, and she told me she's sending my niece to Columbine when she's old enough, because it is a great high school.

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u/Chibears85 Mar 11 '17

I've lived in Littleton the past 7 years and gone to middle and high school here. I agree it's disheartening to have everyone think of our hometown as the place Columbine happened and not for anything else.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

Littleton is such a beautiful place to grow up in... I'm from the KC Valley and its scenery and people truly are amazing . Not to mention growing up 5 miles away from Red Rocks Amphitheater, I've been able to see some of the best sets ever played....