i wonder what the motivation was? she looks older than a teen from that photo
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/01/29-year-old-woman-who-tried-to-enroll-in-nj-high-school-is-a-rutgers-grad.html
Really bizarre.
Can only speculate. If nothing morbid, maybe just someone suffering from crippling loneliness thinking this would give her some sense of kinship/comraderie/community? Reliving the last time they were happy?
Obviously mental illness at play here. Just a matter of which form.
On a side note, I would love to be able to go undercover to a high school for just one day to see how much has changed for a typical student these days.
could be some kind of tik tok prank.
shareWhenever I visit my kids' high/middle school when it's full of students it feels totally bizarre and foreign to me...nothing like when I was a student.
shareYou are right, times have changed.
shareTimes have certainly changed in general and in terms of the children’s school years it’s a great improvement👍
My kids are in High School now and I ask them if they see bullying, racism, homophobia and other lousy behavior that used to happen in my age group many years ago.
My kids tell me that they almost never witness that sort of garbage and their teachers stamp it out very quickly.
That stuff is not tolerated here, I’d like to hope it’s the same most everywhere, intolerance and violence have no place in schools.
It's true. Some schools are very good tamping down on this sort of bullying. It depends on what part of the country the school is located.
What makes the schools seem so foreign is how high tech everything has become. My kids don't even have lockers because they don't have books. Everything is on the chromebook.
Oh, I misunderstood.
Yeah, the tech is taking over but besides lappies my kids still do hump around heavy backpacks of workbooks and such. My grandkids will probably be totally online for all assignments.
Imagine what the penmanship will look like then, it’s already pretty bad in many cases.
Is she a foreign spy of some sort?
shareCameron Crowe actually pulled this off in his early 20s to write about in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
shareStudents who came into contact with Shin were asked not to engage with her again “either remotely or in person,” Johnson said.
Shin was able to enroll in the high school under rules in New Jersey that require the immediate enrollment of unaccompanied children, even if they do not have school records or other documents and their parents are not present, officials said. Those rules help ensure that undocumented immigrants and other students without traditional paperwork are able to enroll in school.