Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I guess these really are exciting times in the school district these ending weeks for the school year, with the dean uproar and all.

Not exactly all positively interesting, but at least not dull, and still newsworthy.

I'm talking about a high school senior who died during the night of their prom.

It was held at one of the hotels to the north, and some or one of the parents of the students who went had agreed to rent a room for them there so their child and classmates could spend the night there.

What happened was a repeat of the tragedy the befell a young actor here, Miko Sotto ; a boy fell over the balcony of their seventh floor room.

The problem about this was that by the time the police arrived to investigate, all the students who had been in the room were already accompanied by their parents - and their lawyers.

Trust that it was probably one of the few occasions that the students there decided it was a good thing mobile phones were invented.

Fathers and mothers, when told about the incident, probably told them to stay put and not to say a thing to anyone until they arrived with legal counsel and discovered the whole story.

Everyone will probably claim to be blameless, that it was an accident or a drunken joke or dare that threw caution to the wind.

At least the school cannot be blamed for it, because the prefects had left with the end of the official prom itself at least 4 hours earlier, and therefore it was assumed everyone would go home.

I wonder if the real story will ever come out (I only saw two mentions of it in online news, and not among the top results of my search either).

But damn, the students of that campus have had a lot of tragedy the past years.

Session 2071 guesses this will lower next year's enrollment, literally and figuratively. Class dismissed.