DRAMA KID REALIZES ASIDES ARE HEARD OUT LOUD

DRAMA KID REALIZES ASIDES ARE HEARD OUT LOUD


At Glenbrook West High school, there have been reports of a student that is involved in drama club saying asides out loud to other people. An aside is when a character in a play or story talks to the audience and other characters cannot hear what he or she is saying. Jeremy Rodgers, sophomore at GBW, does not realize that other people can hear him. Tracey McArthur, junior at GBW, told the principal about one of these asides that Jeremy said.

“He was asking me out to dinner, I had said yes because we had been going out, but then he started talking to himself like I couldn’t hear him. Jeremy had said things I wish he had not said. He kept talking about how he was going to take me home after dinner and do things that I wasn’t sure I was ready for. I asked him if he really meant those things, and he seemed startled that I could hear what he was saying. He said he was having an aside and that I could not hear him.”

Mrs. Johnson, the advance algebra teacher for Jeremy, had reported an aside also. She was worried that there was something wrong with Jeremy. She said that he stood up and looked out the window and started talking to himself on how stupid his teacher was. He had than seen an imaginary pencil in front of him. He ran around the room grabbing at the pencil saying “Is this a pencil that I see before me?”

These asides have also been heard outside of school. Mister and Misses Rodgers have seen Jeremy talking to himself. “We had asked him where he was going later that night; he said he was going to the movies. He then looked off into space and had said that he was really going to Tracey McArthur’s house. We were worried that he did not know that we could hear him. We than called for a professional to take care of him for a little while,” said Mrs. Johnson. Today, Jeremy Rodgers has been taken to George Washington Facility of Correctional Services.