I dont know if you want to call this particular incident controversial or not, but during time Hannah was attending Mrs. Bradley's class Peer Communications, she actually dropped o note in her bag about someone possibly thinking about suicide ! How do you send out papers to your students on the warning signs of suicide and don't pay attention to the one's around you ? It was obvious that someone in the class wrote the note , so to not pay attention to your students was a huge over sight by Mrs. Bradley. But that takes me back to my earlier post when Hannah was feeling like noone even notices her so why stay in a world where noone even knows you exist. If you say or print something, then you should live by your own words. Mrs. Bradley passed out those handouts to tell her students what to look for , pertaining to suicide in a individual, but she didnt look for it. I think that helped to push Hannah over the edge . No Mrs. Bradley is not the blame for Hannah's death, but do you see where she fits in with all of this. I am noat taking sides but you do have to be realistic and look at that particular seen, Hannah was sitting right there in her face and even cut her hair, and left note, and not Mrs. Bradley or any of the students in her class noticed her drastic change. That is something to really think about. I am almost finshed with this book, so i will be entering another post soon. I cant wait to find out what the ultimate reason for Hannah committing suicide.
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I agree with you about Mrs. Bradley, although that's hard as I've been a high school teacher. After reading books like this one and 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult, I have been a little more careful when thinking about my students. Sometimes, it's easy to explain away strange behavior as just "typical teenage behavior." This book has made me more thoughtful.
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