Hello my fellow tv.com friends, once again!
How has everyone been doing?
Me- well, I've been doing pretty good. I'm going to graduate next week on tuesday, and no more grade school... ever! Huh, How about that?
The only thing that has been bothering me lately is my principal! And my stupid district super intendant. And all the staff at my school, and even the stupid 7th graders at my school! How could they have been so blind? How could they say they want to "ensure our safety". How could they send social workers and district conselors to my school today thinking this could make things better.
Ok maybe I should back up. On May 25 it was my 8th grade dance. It was also a Friday night. Two blocks from my school a party was going on with underage drinking, and god knows what else. 7th graders from my school attended that party. Then memorial day weekend came. A body of an african-american girl, somewhere between the ages of 13-17 was found in a local park. Then the week passses by and the body is still unidentified. I worried about it. I thought for sure this girl didn't attend my school. Of course, the teachers would've figured it out by now if it was one of our students. I thought she was some 17 or 16 year-old high school dropout, which would've mad sense. Then June 2nd came.....
"Ricardo Rivers was watching TV when he noticed the photo of a girl found dead in a Joliet park Memorial Day looked like one of his sisters.
He also realized he hadn't seen his sister, Haqikah H. Suggs, 14, since 8 a.m. May 25, when the Joliet seventh-grader was getting ready for school at Hufford Junior High.
So Rivers, 19, filed a missing-person report.
Because of that tip, Will County Coroner Patrick K. O'Neil announced Friday that the body was Rivers' sister, known as Kekah. "
-STEWARD WARREN
I didn't know kekah. There are over 1,000 other students that attend my school. But you meet somewhere everyday in that place. Saying things like "excuse me, and thankyou" And just the fact of knowing that that same girl walked in the same halls as you, ate in the same lunhroom, drank from the same fountain, had PE in the same Gym, learned in the same room, read from the same books, had the same lousy teachers... well, it devastates me. And no one even looked out for the girl. If our principal really cared or even the teachers, well, they would've been able to identify the girl. That's what makes me mad the most....
You know my sister, being a soldier, says that their are so many troops fighting in Iraq, but everyone is surely accounted for. A thousand students isn't that much. And if someone thinks it is then well, there is just going to be one less.
Haqikah H. Suggs- may she forever rest in peace