Students experience multiple trials, school grows closer as family

Senior Ivan Mejia was allegedly murdered by two of his peers. This follows not long after freshman Nahum Martinez was shot by two of his classmates in 2011.

Our school received multiple attacks on its sense of community and what the students are being taught.

This is an unfair accusation. We are taught well and loved as a family. We are a community and held together by each person like threads in a quilt. This quilt may have a few frayed pieces, but that does not mean the quilt is unraveling. One fraying thread does not define our school as a whole.

Our family, our quilt, and our community is very affected by these deaths and tragedies. High school students cannot handle pain and chaos, they cannot cope with what we as a student body have gone though. The crazy thing is, we have taken these deaths, embraced them and instead of making ourselves bitter, we made ourselves better.

Students have rallied together to change the world, to create fundraisers and to work with those affected by these tragedies. We have woven our quilt tighter and made ourselves a stronger family. We are not going to let these mishaps ruin us, but build us stronger. We are Wylie East, and we are invincible.