Many couldn’t believe what was happening.

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“It’s visceral,” he said. “I guess they thought if we dwelled on it, we would get all depressed.” Part of the problem in discussing what happened is that it was, and remains, so inexplicable.

Some former students felt it was perverse to attribute any good to the shooting that killed Mrs. Wright and hobbled Ernie Nicholls. The schools sports programs include Football, basketball, curling, swimming, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, hockey, ski & snowboard, archery, baseball, Fast Pitch, cricket, badminton, lacrosse, rugby and soccer. Many say they suffered post-traumatic stress. Michael Peter Slobodian.” The killing began in the boys’ washroom.

“I’m quite sure I had PTSD for years,” she said. His English teacher, 25-year-old Margaret Wright, called home to let his parents know he had skipped class.He returned to school around 11:30 a.m., carrying his guitar case which, unknown to anyone, was packing a .444 calibre rifle and a .22 calibre rifle. Maureen Abraham — now Maureen Sim — thought someone was setting off cherry bombs. Toronto Star articles, please go to:The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star

I remember sitting with my mother and crying.” It would be a rare moment of catharsis. In 1999, on the night of the Columbine shooting, Mrs. Wright appeared to him in a dream and told him to make art out of the tragedy. “There’s a lot of people who need to do a lot of healing.”Today, the tragic pattern of school shootings is familiar. “‘Why didn’t you call?’” The next day, when he came down the stairs for breakfast, his mother was reading the newspaper. “I was in desperate emotional pain. It was on May 28, 1975, that Michael Slobodian entered Brampton Centennial Secondary School carrying two rifles.

Pat Slinger was studying as a mature student at Centennial in 1975. Michael’s English teacher Margaret Wright called home to say he had been cutting class. "You'd hear other people say [the shooting] never happened, that it's an old wives tale," she says.

Scott Gibbons, who carried a wounded female student to the nurse’s office during the attack, has flashbacks whenever he sees a massacre on the TV news. On 28 May 1975 Michael Slobodian, a student at the school, brought two rifles to school with the intention of killing two particular teachers and himself. “A lot of us have never even spoken about it in 40 years,” said Pam Hand, who as a Grade 9 student watched in horror while Michael Slobodian put a rifle to his head and pulled the trigger.

I am going to eliminate certain people from this world. “A lot of times when I’m lecturing, I bring this up, that I was involved with this, and this is what it was like in ’75 and this is what we’re striving to be like today,” he said. This was only the second school shooting in Canadian history.Brampton Centennial has many athletics programs which are collectively known by students as "Buckland." He very politely said he didn’t feel up to discussing it. “No one had the words,” said Thompson.

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"Those discussions led to a memorial service, held two years ago to mark the shooting's 40th anniversary.Former staff and students met with family members of the victims and the shooter to officially mourn their deaths. There were a handful of faint “warning signs” — he was “quiet”; he joined the local militia in April; he didn’t have many close friends; he dabbled in weed and LSD; he was a keen hunter. I am not insane but just strictly fed up with life. She launched an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal alleging systematic discrimination in the Peel public board. School shooting. You just know what it’s like … It’s like when somebody pulls a knife on you — everything goes quiet real fast.”Sylvia Meister still gets frightened by loud noises. Then, from down the hall, through a haze of smoke, Pam Read saw Slobodian put a rifle to his head.

“‘Where the hell were you?’” she said.

"You'd think to yourself, 'No, it really did. -- Walmart Canada plans to invest $3.5 billion over the next five years to improve service in stores and on the web, renovate 150 stores and build two new distribution centres. A cadre of mothers stood anxiously around the front entrance in housecoats and pyjamas. The 16-year-old shot and killed teacher Margaret Wright and student John Slinger.He injured another 13 people before taking his own life. Principal: Superintendent: Trustee(s): Paul Freier : Michelle Stubbings : Kathy McDonald Will Davies: Built in the centennial year – replacing Brampton High School. "I can still close my eyes and see it vividly," she says. “I’ve come to accept the fact that there are some questions which have no answers.” With or without an explanation, many former students can’t help reliving the shooting to this day.

“My life is now gone to pot. “Michael Peter Slobodian was a Canadian high school student who killed two people and wounded 13 others, two of them seriously at the Brampton Centennial Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, Canada on May 28, 1975, before committing suicide.

When he arrived at the family’s bungalow around 10:40 for the mid-morning recess, his mother confronted him about his absences.

Some chose their careers because of it, others their homes.

Just before noon, 16-year-old Michael Slobodian walked onto the campus with two high-powered hunting rifles and at least two ammunition belts. “We got no help. rights reserved.

Thompson, like most of the dozen former students interviewed for this story, found their parents and teachers reluctant to discuss the tragedy, wary of “dwelling on it,” keen to move on.

But others reluctantly acknowledged that living through trauma changed their lives for the better, in oblique but powerful ways. There she found the teacher with a large chest wound that she couldn’t cover with her hand, she later told the coroner’s inquest. Fax: 905-451-4756. "He says that since the memorial's installation, he's noticed current students taking an interest. Neither the school nor police offered counselling for students who had witnessed the killing.