In a written statement that was the most detailed account thus far of the shooting, which occurred in Roseburg, Oregon on 1 October, Mathew Downing said on Friday that when Christopher Harpentereder entered his classroom, Downing's ears were ringing from shots already fired and he thought what was happening "couldn't be real".
I detect something megalomaniac in people sitting about in offices far from classrooms laying down instructions for what tens of thousands of students will read and be examined on.
Students hid in classrooms looking down on the carnage, and behind university landmarks, wondering what to do.
He would come into the classroom, sit down, then suddenly stand up and start walking around, talking, with hand gestures, with that voice of his, and the wildest kids sat there enchanted".
Turning the classroom upside down Teachers around the country are doing this already -- reaching students in cool, new ways.
Instead, they walk up to the third floor of the cinder-block school building, enter a darkened classroom, lie down and belly breathe.
The 23-year-old acknowledged at least witnessing the fights, telling police the first brawl in his Montville High School classroom went down in September, followed by perhaps three more, according to his arrest warrant.
But during his "no manipulation" speech you could hear faint but fervent cheers from a classroom down the hall where an overflow crowd of eager Bradley supporters had been stashed.
Angela J. Yi, an 18-year-old freshman, was attending her morning writing class on the second floor of the Classroom and Office Building early Wednesday when she heard yelling from a classroom down the hall.
