A horrific tragedy this weekend took the life of a beloved math teacher, 40-year-old Jason Hughes. Police say 5 students were pulling an annual high school prank “rolling” the Hughes’ house with toilet paper when Hughes ran out and slipped in the street. Unfortunately, one of the vehicles hit and killed Hughes and now all five students are facing charges. Hughes’ wife Laura is now speaking out, saying she wants to prevent “a separate tragedy” from occurring: ruining the lives of the students that her husband dedicated his life to serving.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It is Monday, March ninth, and a high school senior
has been charged with murder after a high school prank,
one in which most of us probably participated in when
we were kids. With that, welcome to this episode of
Amy and TJ an awful tragedy that is Robes. Now
(00:25):
a new part of this story is really tugging at
us all in our heartstrings about this. Yes, it's actually
the wife of the guy who died who is pleading
that the teenager not be charged. Robes will get into
the details, but that's the line. That's the bottom line.
(00:46):
Now that's turned the story, yes, into a tragedy. But Robes,
what's the next thing it's become now, right, tragedy at first,
and now it's there's a different twist or angle to
this story.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, you're like you said, it pulls on your heart
streams because yes, a forty year old math teacher died
and his wife instead of wanting justice or revenge for
the teens and we'll get into the prank that they
were basically rolling their house and I say rolling, that's
(01:18):
what we call it when you throw toilet paper up
in the trees and just a high school prank but
it ended up tragically killing her husband. And she now says,
I don't want that teenager charge. And he has been
charged with vehicular homicide. And what an amazing act of
forgiveness and understanding that this was just an accident.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This happened over the weekend, folks. This is down in Gainesville, Georgia.
It's about an hour northeast of Atlanta. To give you
some perspective there. But it was a junior senior prank
and these kids were out, five of them in two
separate cars. And yes, they threw toilet paper at the
house of their teacher. So what happened after that? As
(02:05):
they tossed the toilet paper, the kids were hopping back
in their cars to take off. The teacher comes outside
and as the cars are taking off, the teacher, according
to police, Robes didn't step into a car and the
car didn't swerve. They say, actually that was slick pavement.
He accidentally slipped and fell into the street where the
(02:29):
car was going hit him. He dies at the hospital,
but Robes there on the scene. Even you imagine the
horror of these kids. They got out and tried to
help them.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, so look, and I just put myself in these kids' places,
because I'll admit I did this with my friends multiple times,
a fun prank. It wasn't even mean spirited. I look
at it now and maybe it seems like it, but
it's just something that kids do and.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Just a playful kind of hahaha. He was a beloved
math teacher.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
His wife is also a math teacher at the same
high school, so they were just having fun.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But to think that it just so many things had
to go wrong for this to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But then know that the kids got out of the
car immediately and tried to help their math teacher.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Unfortunately he didn't survive.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It did not keep authorities from charging Jaden Ryan Wallace,
eighteen years old. He is charged with first degree vehicular homicide,
reckless driving, criminal trespassing, and littering. They have not ruled
out the authorities have not possibly charging some of the
other kids that he was with. Again, it was five
kids in total, but he was driving the car in particular. Now,
(03:42):
the other part of this story to add robes is
that they say the teacher. When I first read the story,
I thought he came out he was upset with the kids. No,
that's not it. This was an annual tradition, planned prank.
He came out robes to be a part of it
and almost kind of bust them playfully. He wasn't. He
(04:04):
didn't run out there to get on to the kids.
He ran out there because he knew the kids, He
loved the kids, and he knew this was coming.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, like this is It's almost like they were rolling
the house of the teacher they loved, like as a joke,
as a Hey, we're seniors, let's have some fun, let's
roll their house. And yeah, to think he was coming
out it was eleven thirty at night. It's just it's
so horrific to think about what comes next. Because you
(04:31):
pull up this picture. This teacher, Jason Hughes is his name,
forty years old, taught math and online you see the
pictures of him and his wife and their two young sons,
and they're just this beautiful family. They had moved to
Gainesville from Winnett County, which is just a little bit
further south here there in Georgia, where I went to
high school. Actually, so look, it's funny because I don't
(04:51):
know if this happens in other parts of the country
as much, but I grew up in Gwenette County and
that's we went rolling on Friday nights and just yeah,
you do you do it to people you hated, you
do it to people that you actually liked and were
having fun with. And that seems like that was exactly
what was happening on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
There have been robes and we've seen incidents over the
years and even more recent with kids being injured and
even killed because they do pranks with the They run
up to the door and they bang on the door,
then they run away. Yeah, we've seen that some. There
are times and there are incidents where there are misunderstandings
(05:30):
and mishaps, if you will, where someone thinks their home
is being attacked or there's an intruder and it's just
a prank. That's one thing. This was not that at all.
Robes were actually talking about a slip. This is the
worst type of why you end up asking if you're religious, like,
(05:52):
what sense and meaning of life can you make of this?
It was an accident. Now it's up to legally rose
before we even saw and we're gonna read here in
a moment the statement from the widow now of the
teacher that was killed, but rose. Before we even saw
her statement, we were both saying to each other, man,
do they have to charge this kid? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And I because it just obviously he is going to
live with this and suffer because of this for the
rest of his life, no question. And I was actually looking.
I don't even know that he's out of jail yet.
Did you see that he was, because it said as
of Sunday evening he was still in police custody.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So this is a kid. This happened Friday night.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
To think he's just sitting in that jail cell and
has been at least through the weekend, being charged at
eighteen years old with homicide.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
All the chargers away. You don't drop every charge right now.
And he's still messed up for life.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Hell be in his own prison.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
There's that punishment that he is getting. Romes. We do
have to hold people responsible for accident. I am not
trying to look into the legal back and forth, but
just accidents happen. Yes, if they had chosen not to
do this, yes, that teacher would still be alive. Yes,
I don't know what the prosecutor has to weigh. And
if you don't have a victim or victims family beaten
(07:09):
down your door saying hey, we want justice. I don't know, Robes,
this is an impossible one. But if you're struggling to
figure it out and trying to understand and what should
be done, who should we listen to? Robes? We should
listen to the widow maybe of this teacher. Stay here, folks,
she has released two statements that will break your heart.
(07:33):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ,
where we are talking about a playful high school prank
that turned deadly. Unfortunately, forty year old Jason Hughes, a
beloved math teacher in Hall County, Georgia. This is in Gainesville, Georgia,
was coming out.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Of his house.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It was a playful prank where he was going to
confront these students who had tepeed.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Rolled his house with toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It was an annual prank and he was coming out
and by all accounts, as he was coming out of
the roadway and the teens were taken off in their vehicle,
he slipped on slippery pavement, fell in front of the
vehicle as it was coming over. He was accidentally run over.
The kids stopped and unfortunately mister Hughes died at the
(08:34):
hospital later of his injuries. And now we're talking about
the eighteen year old who was at the driver's seat,
in the driver's seat of that vehicle. He has now
been charged with vehicul or homicide with a many, many,
many other charges. And the wife, who was also a
math teacher at this same high school, Laura Hughes as
her name, has put out a couple of statements, and
(08:54):
you mentioned before the break heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And she and two separate ones. She was she alluded
to in one of them also keeping the kids in
your thoughts and prayers, and then another one she was
more direct in what she was requesting, but the first
one part of it says, quote, our family wants to
thank the Hall County community for the outpouring of prayers
and support and the respect for our privacy as we
(09:19):
grieve the loss of Jason. We ask that you continue
to pray for our family and also for the students
involved in the accident, along with their families. Please join
us in extending grace and mercy to them as Christ
has done for us. Lord Wow jesusly wow Woes. That
is now again, rhobes. We've seen incident. Different type of crimes,
(09:43):
if you will, in which we're amazed when the victim's
family is able to extend grace. This is a different one, sure,
because this isn't like they were targeting him or wanted
to do him harm. It's a different type of thing.
But still to see at a woman who lost her
husband twenty four forty eight hours ago is able to
(10:05):
put that together extend grace and mercy to them as well.
I want to meet this lady.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And look, we were looking up this family and the
beautiful family photo they have. But it was it was
something that Jason himself put out about moving to Gainesville
to teach at North Hall High School.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's you can just get.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
A sense of who this family is and who Jason was.
Just to read his own words talking about teaching in
Gwenatt for ten years moving to Gainesville, Georgia. I like
how he put this to teach and serve at North
Hall High School. That says a lot. He said he
was going to Gainesville to teach and serve, and he
said I have the distinct honor of teaching alongside my
(10:49):
wife Laura. In fact, we even teach the same math
subject's exclamation point. He said, along with our two boys,
Luke and Owen, we are excited to be a part
of this community and eager to to.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
See God move here.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Faith was such a huge part of their family, and
you can see that playing out. It's one thing to
say that you're a Christian, it's one thing to say
you have faith in God.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But wow, she is proving it by her words.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
She's doing this in practice. Again, folks, you would have
to assume that night the whole family was at home
and asleep, and they have two young kids who she
is now that is her number one priority in everything,
and so to see this and this is the other
part she put out again from Laura Hughes, the widow
(11:35):
of the teacher killed, saying, this is a terrible tragedy
and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy
from occurring, ruining the lives of these students. This would
be counter to Jason's lifelong dedication of investing in the
lives of these children. She's asking that they not face
charges a separate tragedy from occurring. Wow, I have to
(12:00):
listen to her. I don't know what the law says.
I don't know what the law says about prosecutors having
to listen to her, but we hear all the time
about prosecutors taken into consideration with the wishes of a family.
How could you ignore this one.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We've talked about it, and it just seems like that
would be the right thing to do. It is under
the discretion of the prosecutor. But the whole county Sheriff's
office has said that the four other students are being
charged with criminal trespass and littering. Now, obviously that's nothing
compared to the vehicular homicide reckless driving charges that Jaden
Wallace is face.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They're getting charge of littering. Somebody's dead and we had time.
But I know, I guess they're just doing they want
to hold somebody responsible for something because there's a death.
It seems like you can't just all walk away from
this and nobody held responsible. I don't know, baby, babe,
I don't know. I don't know what to do with
this one. But to her point, Laura Hughes, I would
listen to her a separate tragedy. This was an accident.
(12:59):
It was horrible. I don't know what to do with
this kid. What's punishment for this kid? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I was I agree that, look, what he is going
to have to live with is going to be punishment.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I hate to use the word enough, but I do
believe that a plenty. Yes, I do believe that. And
I was just imagining.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Look, we're recording this, and this is the first day
back at school on Monday, at North Hall High School.
I cannot even imagine what it is like to be
at that high school today. This was a beloved math teacher.
Obviously his wife Laura, who was the other math teacher
I'm sure is not at school today. But my goodness,
it's just a It's an unspeakable tragedy. I wonder how
(13:38):
much this will change just the idea of pranks and
having fun because you see it. Maybe in the intention
behind it was fun and silly, but to see something
like this happening, I don't know if you could ever
predict this or prevent this.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I mean, is there a lesson here? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't The lesson, babe, is that sometimes crap has
happens and there's no explanation for it. You're supposed to
tell kids all over the country, Hey, don't ever pull
pranks again, don't ever go out late again. No, you
tell them the best you can to be careful, to
be kind, do the best you can roads and this
stuff still happens. And that's hard and that's heavy. But
I don't know how to tell this kid to do
(14:18):
something different, Like you shouldn't have been out close to midnight. Okay,
we could do that. He wasn't out drinking. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know, es, I don't know, so if I
hadn't said that enough. But we want to pass this
one along to you all. This is a part of
a conversation and robes, this is a part of This
is not just a story. This is about human nature.
(14:41):
And this is about human being humanity, excuse me, and
grace and forgiveness and love. And Laura Hughes is teaching
us a lot at a time that she ain't got
time to be teaching us anything. She's got other things
on her mind. But man, she just gave us a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's beautiful. It's easy. It's easy to be kind.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's easy to be to give grace to folks when
things are going your way and things are great and beautiful.
This is when it's hard when you're angry, when you're upset,
when you're devastated, and to see Laura Hughes be able
to make that statement that she's made it is.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Uh yeah wow. I have learned so much from her today.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's a reminder for us all to be kind and
to recognize that forgiveness is probably the biggest gift, the
best gift you could give anyone. So with that, everyone,
thank you so much for listening to us. I'm Ami
Roboch alongside TJ.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
It is Monday, March ninth, and a high school senior
has been charged with murder after a high school prank,
one in which most of us probably participated in when
we were kids. With that, welcome to this episode of
Amy and TJ an awful tragedy that is Robes. Now
(00:25):
a new part of this story is really tugging at
us all in our heartstrings about this. Yes, it's actually
the wife of the guy who died who is pleading
that the teenager not be charged. Robes will get into
the details, but that's the line. That's the bottom line.
(00:46):
Now that's turned the story, yes, into a tragedy. But Robes,
what's the next thing it's become now, right, tragedy at first,
and now it's there's a different twist or angle to
this story.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, you're like you said, it pulls on your heart
streams because yes, a forty year old math teacher died
and his wife instead of wanting justice or revenge for
the teens and we'll get into the prank that they
were basically rolling their house and I say rolling, that's
(01:18):
what we call it when you throw toilet paper up
in the trees and just a high school prank but
it ended up tragically killing her husband. And she now says,
I don't want that teenager charge. And he has been
charged with vehicular homicide. And what an amazing act of
forgiveness and understanding that this was just an accident.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This happened over the weekend, folks. This is down in Gainesville, Georgia.
It's about an hour northeast of Atlanta. To give you
some perspective there. But it was a junior senior prank
and these kids were out, five of them in two
separate cars. And yes, they threw toilet paper at the
house of their teacher. So what happened after that? As
(02:05):
they tossed the toilet paper, the kids were hopping back
in their cars to take off. The teacher comes outside
and as the cars are taking off, the teacher, according
to police, Robes didn't step into a car and the
car didn't swerve. They say, actually that was slick pavement.
He accidentally slipped and fell into the street where the
(02:29):
car was going hit him. He dies at the hospital,
but Robes there on the scene. Even you imagine the
horror of these kids. They got out and tried to
help them.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, so look, and I just put myself in these kids' places,
because I'll admit I did this with my friends multiple times,
a fun prank. It wasn't even mean spirited. I look
at it now and maybe it seems like it, but
it's just something that kids do and.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Just a playful kind of hahaha. He was a beloved
math teacher.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
His wife is also a math teacher at the same
high school, so they were just having fun.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But to think that it just so many things had
to go wrong for this to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But then know that the kids got out of the
car immediately and tried to help their math teacher.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Unfortunately he didn't survive.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It did not keep authorities from charging Jaden Ryan Wallace,
eighteen years old. He is charged with first degree vehicular homicide,
reckless driving, criminal trespassing, and littering. They have not ruled
out the authorities have not possibly charging some of the
other kids that he was with. Again, it was five
kids in total, but he was driving the car in particular. Now,
(03:42):
the other part of this story to add robes is
that they say the teacher. When I first read the story,
I thought he came out he was upset with the kids. No,
that's not it. This was an annual tradition, planned prank.
He came out robes to be a part of it
and almost kind of bust them playfully. He wasn't. He
(04:04):
didn't run out there to get on to the kids.
He ran out there because he knew the kids, He
loved the kids, and he knew this was coming.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, like this is It's almost like they were rolling
the house of the teacher they loved, like as a joke,
as a Hey, we're seniors, let's have some fun, let's
roll their house. And yeah, to think he was coming
out it was eleven thirty at night. It's just it's
so horrific to think about what comes next. Because you
(04:31):
pull up this picture. This teacher, Jason Hughes is his name,
forty years old, taught math and online you see the
pictures of him and his wife and their two young sons,
and they're just this beautiful family. They had moved to
Gainesville from Winnett County, which is just a little bit
further south here there in Georgia, where I went to
high school. Actually, so look, it's funny because I don't
(04:51):
know if this happens in other parts of the country
as much, but I grew up in Gwenette County and
that's we went rolling on Friday nights and just yeah,
you do you do it to people you hated, you
do it to people that you actually liked and were
having fun with. And that seems like that was exactly
what was happening on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
There have been robes and we've seen incidents over the
years and even more recent with kids being injured and
even killed because they do pranks with the They run
up to the door and they bang on the door,
then they run away. Yeah, we've seen that some. There
are times and there are incidents where there are misunderstandings
(05:30):
and mishaps, if you will, where someone thinks their home
is being attacked or there's an intruder and it's just
a prank. That's one thing. This was not that at all.
Robes were actually talking about a slip. This is the
worst type of why you end up asking if you're religious, like,
(05:52):
what sense and meaning of life can you make of this?
It was an accident. Now it's up to legally rose
before we even saw and we're gonna read here in
a moment the statement from the widow now of the
teacher that was killed, but rose. Before we even saw
her statement, we were both saying to each other, man,
do they have to charge this kid? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And I because it just obviously he is going to
live with this and suffer because of this for the
rest of his life, no question. And I was actually looking.
I don't even know that he's out of jail yet.
Did you see that he was, because it said as
of Sunday evening he was still in police custody.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So this is a kid. This happened Friday night.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
To think he's just sitting in that jail cell and
has been at least through the weekend, being charged at
eighteen years old with homicide.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
All the chargers away. You don't drop every charge right now.
And he's still messed up for life.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Hell be in his own prison.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
There's that punishment that he is getting. Romes. We do
have to hold people responsible for accident. I am not
trying to look into the legal back and forth, but
just accidents happen. Yes, if they had chosen not to
do this, yes, that teacher would still be alive. Yes,
I don't know what the prosecutor has to weigh. And
if you don't have a victim or victims family beaten
(07:09):
down your door saying hey, we want justice. I don't know, Robes,
this is an impossible one. But if you're struggling to
figure it out and trying to understand and what should
be done, who should we listen to? Robes? We should
listen to the widow maybe of this teacher. Stay here, folks,
she has released two statements that will break your heart.
(07:33):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ,
where we are talking about a playful high school prank
that turned deadly. Unfortunately, forty year old Jason Hughes, a
beloved math teacher in Hall County, Georgia. This is in Gainesville, Georgia,
was coming out.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Of his house.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It was a playful prank where he was going to
confront these students who had tepeed.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Rolled his house with toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It was an annual prank and he was coming out
and by all accounts, as he was coming out of
the roadway and the teens were taken off in their vehicle,
he slipped on slippery pavement, fell in front of the
vehicle as it was coming over. He was accidentally run over.
The kids stopped and unfortunately mister Hughes died at the
(08:34):
hospital later of his injuries. And now we're talking about
the eighteen year old who was at the driver's seat,
in the driver's seat of that vehicle. He has now
been charged with vehicul or homicide with a many, many,
many other charges. And the wife, who was also a
math teacher at this same high school, Laura Hughes as
her name, has put out a couple of statements, and
(08:54):
you mentioned before the break heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And she and two separate ones. She was she alluded
to in one of them also keeping the kids in
your thoughts and prayers, and then another one she was
more direct in what she was requesting, but the first
one part of it says, quote, our family wants to
thank the Hall County community for the outpouring of prayers
and support and the respect for our privacy as we
(09:19):
grieve the loss of Jason. We ask that you continue
to pray for our family and also for the students
involved in the accident, along with their families. Please join
us in extending grace and mercy to them as Christ
has done for us. Lord Wow jesusly wow Woes. That
is now again, rhobes. We've seen incident. Different type of crimes,
(09:43):
if you will, in which we're amazed when the victim's
family is able to extend grace. This is a different one, sure,
because this isn't like they were targeting him or wanted
to do him harm. It's a different type of thing.
But still to see at a woman who lost her
husband twenty four forty eight hours ago is able to
(10:05):
put that together extend grace and mercy to them as well.
I want to meet this lady.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And look, we were looking up this family and the
beautiful family photo they have. But it was it was
something that Jason himself put out about moving to Gainesville
to teach at North Hall High School.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's you can just get.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
A sense of who this family is and who Jason was.
Just to read his own words talking about teaching in
Gwenatt for ten years moving to Gainesville, Georgia. I like
how he put this to teach and serve at North
Hall High School. That says a lot. He said he
was going to Gainesville to teach and serve, and he
said I have the distinct honor of teaching alongside my
(10:49):
wife Laura. In fact, we even teach the same math
subject's exclamation point. He said, along with our two boys,
Luke and Owen, we are excited to be a part
of this community and eager to to.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
See God move here.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Faith was such a huge part of their family, and
you can see that playing out. It's one thing to
say that you're a Christian, it's one thing to say
you have faith in God.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But wow, she is proving it by her words.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
She's doing this in practice. Again, folks, you would have
to assume that night the whole family was at home
and asleep, and they have two young kids who she
is now that is her number one priority in everything,
and so to see this and this is the other
part she put out again from Laura Hughes, the widow
(11:35):
of the teacher killed, saying, this is a terrible tragedy
and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy
from occurring, ruining the lives of these students. This would
be counter to Jason's lifelong dedication of investing in the
lives of these children. She's asking that they not face
charges a separate tragedy from occurring. Wow, I have to
(12:00):
listen to her. I don't know what the law says.
I don't know what the law says about prosecutors having
to listen to her, but we hear all the time
about prosecutors taken into consideration with the wishes of a family.
How could you ignore this one.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We've talked about it, and it just seems like that
would be the right thing to do. It is under
the discretion of the prosecutor. But the whole county Sheriff's
office has said that the four other students are being
charged with criminal trespass and littering. Now, obviously that's nothing
compared to the vehicular homicide reckless driving charges that Jaden
Wallace is face.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They're getting charge of littering. Somebody's dead and we had time.
But I know, I guess they're just doing they want
to hold somebody responsible for something because there's a death.
It seems like you can't just all walk away from
this and nobody held responsible. I don't know, baby, babe,
I don't know. I don't know what to do with
this one. But to her point, Laura Hughes, I would
listen to her a separate tragedy. This was an accident.
(12:59):
It was horrible. I don't know what to do with
this kid. What's punishment for this kid? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I was I agree that, look, what he is going
to have to live with is going to be punishment.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I hate to use the word enough, but I do
believe that a plenty. Yes, I do believe that. And
I was just imagining.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Look, we're recording this, and this is the first day
back at school on Monday, at North Hall High School.
I cannot even imagine what it is like to be
at that high school today. This was a beloved math teacher.
Obviously his wife Laura, who was the other math teacher
I'm sure is not at school today. But my goodness,
it's just a It's an unspeakable tragedy. I wonder how
(13:38):
much this will change just the idea of pranks and
having fun because you see it. Maybe in the intention
behind it was fun and silly, but to see something
like this happening, I don't know if you could ever
predict this or prevent this.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I mean, is there a lesson here? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't The lesson, babe, is that sometimes crap has
happens and there's no explanation for it. You're supposed to
tell kids all over the country, Hey, don't ever pull
pranks again, don't ever go out late again. No, you
tell them the best you can to be careful, to
be kind, do the best you can roads and this
stuff still happens. And that's hard and that's heavy. But
I don't know how to tell this kid to do
(14:18):
something different, Like you shouldn't have been out close to midnight. Okay,
we could do that. He wasn't out drinking. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know, es, I don't know, so if I
hadn't said that enough. But we want to pass this
one along to you all. This is a part of
a conversation and robes, this is a part of This
is not just a story. This is about human nature.
(14:41):
And this is about human being humanity, excuse me, and
grace and forgiveness and love. And Laura Hughes is teaching
us a lot at a time that she ain't got
time to be teaching us anything. She's got other things
on her mind. But man, she just gave us a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's beautiful. It's easy. It's easy to be kind.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's easy to be to give grace to folks when
things are going your way and things are great and beautiful.
This is when it's hard when you're angry, when you're upset,
when you're devastated, and to see Laura Hughes be able
to make that statement that she's made it is.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Uh yeah wow. I have learned so much from her today.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's a reminder for us all to be kind and
to recognize that forgiveness is probably the biggest gift, the
best gift you could give anyone. So with that, everyone,
thank you so much for listening to us. I'm Ami
Roboch alongside TJ.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
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Amy Robach
T.J. Holmes
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