Amanda Collette: Collette killed in Dillard High School Fort Lauderdale
By Clarencia Cynrae on November 12th, 2008Amanda Collette, 15, of Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, was killed in a shooting. The video is below. A girl, 15, also of Dillard High School, was arrested on suspicion of murdering Amanda Collette. The suspected shooter has not been charged but is under police custody. Her name was not released. She had a chrome, semiautomatic handgun with her.
Dillard High School students, parents and staff were shocked. Police are investigating. They are reviewing footage from security cameras at Dillard High School. Some students notified their parents of the shooting and they came to Dillard High School to pick up their kids. Many people were rattled and did not want to remain inside Dillard High School for the day. Police and Dillard High School had issued a lockdown order to search for more possible suspects and investigate.
Dillard High School, at 2501 NW 11th St., Fort Lauderdale, is 100 years old and had no past history of violence. Classes were on-going and there were no plans for a break.
RIP.
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November 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I LOVED AMANDA AND I ALWAYS WILL!
November 12th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
dillardgirl,
I’m sorry for your loss. I am shocked by the tragedy. Do you know what caused the meltdown?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
(This is a poem that I wrote after reading about
the death of 15-year-old sophomore Amanda Collette)
Ah, well, it was only one student…
Not like this was Columbine or anything…
I mean, we’re still safe enough
that our school only requires
police patrol;
not metal detectors.
And who knows…
maybe Amanda Collette was a troublemaker
or special ed
or just a nerd…
We can still hold classes again today… yeah…
it was just a murder.
Only one person was killed anyway.
It isn’t like this is Virginia Tech or anything.
A human being just died in the hallways of our school,
but we have more important things to worry about,
we have things to teach our students,
things like math and science and English…
never mind teaching the value of human life,
never mind taking even one day off
even this day, when she lost her life,
in this – a public screwel -
the holy of holies
the place of all places
which we are told is sacrosanct safe
for the hearts and minds of our children
did you ever imagine we’d have to worry
about their lives?
Or do we only notice
when the dying and death
is physical.
never mind taking the time to mourn
the extinguishing
of a light in the world.
never mind just another taking of just another human life…
A human life that was not a stranger in the newspaper
but a fellow member of our high school, and a person that
even if we didn’t know, we saw walking in the very halls where she died.
And I can rest easy in my bed tonight
Knowing that it was just an isolated incident,
Peaceful and sublime in my unmitigated trust
of the public school systems of America.
Yeah, I’ll send you my children again tomorrow
to be taught more lessons like the one they had today
where your actions spoke far louder than your rhetoric
No, superintendant, you are right.
We could not have afforded the hassle,
it would have been too much to annoy the parents,
and force them to have to take time off from work
just because “some kid” got shot today.
As Karl Marx truly said, “Human beings are just corpses in the road of history.”
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Tell that to Amanda Collette’s parents.
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Way to go, Dillard High School.
At last we have communism in our schools!
Kudos, Broward County.
Thanks for locking in the children, ’cause we know
you can keep them safer than we can.
All hail, Fort Lauderdale.
Really sounds like a place I’d like to move to.
Is this really what we’ve come to, America?
Just move the body and act as if nothing’s happened?
Business as usual?
“Mankind was my business!”
I wonder at the length of our own
Jacob Marley chains.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am
anyone who dosenot understand this situation I will teach u a lesson of life on this day that has past an inocent soul has been taken from this earth and it was taken away from not just one family. This young girls soul was taken away from the family of all those who ever came into contact with her. She was taken to a better place but was force to leave her friends and family behighned to suffer and only long for more time with her that they knew they couldn’t ever have. The people she left will now value her more than ever because shewas a victim who had the gift of life taken away be they will think of all the things that couldeve been said or done I was one of those people she was my friend and now it is my job to honor her life. Every life has equal value that is What is to be learned from this event and u never fell the pain of death until it comes so close and tares some one from your heart and u can only sit back to relize they are never coming back rest in peace amanda
November 15th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I am very disappointed with what happened. but when I find this school have a Mrs. Andrew Cadavid as teach , I was not surprised the example this students have, the school really don’t make any a School psychological test before admit a new teacher, because if they do for sure this man won be there, if school principal make personal serach background of Andrew Cadavid ,for sure this teacher never will be admitted in any school.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Kudos to someones mom. And I for one am getting my daughter out of this fucked up school system. It’s dangerous and they are so laxadasical about everything. This is a bad place to raise children….get out while you can!!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hi Karen I agree 100% with you.
Our kids pass more time in the school that inside home and if they could have a good teachers as example it will help allot , but when the school don’t even take care who is the teachers and what back ground and what personal life style they have, like the bad example of Teacher Andrew Cadavid, the results will come over to our kids.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I agree 100% with you Karen.
Our kids pass more time in the school that inside home and if they could have a good teachers as example it will help allot , but when the school don’t even take care who is the teachers and what back ground and what personal life style they have, like the bad example of Teacher Andrew Cadavid, the results will come over to our kids.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY AS HELL!!! FOR ONE DILLARD IS A VERY GOOD SCHOOL. IF YOUR CHILD DONT FIT THE CATEGORY TO ATTENDING THERE TAKE THEM OUT THEN. I AM A SENIOR WITH A 3.75 G.P.A. I INTERACT WITH MOSTLY ALL KIDS HERE AND KNOW WHEN AND WHEN NOT TO GET INTO SOMETHING. THIS INCIDENT COULD TAKE PLACE AT ANY SCHOOL AND MAYBE YOUR JOB IF YOUR EMPLOYED LIKE I AM. AMANDA WAS A NICE YOUNG INDIVIDUAL AND JUST HAPPENED TO BE INA INNOCENT SITUATION THAT GOT OUT OF CONTROL. IF YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING BOUT THE SCHOOL THEN DONT TALK ABOUT IT. I BET NEITHER OF YOU WAS AT OUT PRIDE WALK. NAW I DONT THINK SO. YOU GUYS SUPPOSE TO BE ADULTS LOL (LAUGH OUT LOUD)YOU ALL ARE NUTS. WELL HOPE YOU LIKE MY NOTE. CLASS OF 09
May 8th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
amanda was the best person i ever knew; she was not just some girl walking down the halls, she was one of my bestfriends and she stood by me through everything. dancing with her was amazing and she always made me laugh. like they say “only the good die young” baby you were simply amazing. words cant express what its like to loose someone so dear. its hard to believe shes even gone sometimes. daily i look at her number in my phone and i just want to text her because i want so badly so recieve a text back. ive come to realize though that will never happen and that my amanda grace collette danced her way to heaven. yes this wasnt like columbine and this wasnt like virgina tech but november 12. 2008 replay’s itself in my head every single day. amanda gave me a reason to continue to dance and i live to let her shine. shes my everything.
dillard on the other hand is not as bad as people make it out to be, ilovemyhighschool. its taught me alot and ive learned to never judge a book by its cover with both negative and positive situations that have occured. dont judge just because of what youve heard.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
“Karen” “SomeonesMom” and “Vane”…i know you are probably concerned parents but honestly..FUCK OFF..that was the first shooting at Dillard Highschool. Amanda was my sisters best friend. Your kids are lucky if they could get into the dance program Amanda was in. I’m 19 now and at Florida State University and I still remember every moment of this day. This event could have easily happened at the private catholic highschool I attended, where the teachers could care less about their students.Dillard is a fantastic school. Instead of bitching about it, you should focus on showing some compassion for the Collette Family. Otherwise, go screw yourselves. -RK