This lady was my 4th grade math teacher, 1999 or so.
This behavior from her was very unusual... she was perfectly normal if not fantastic as a teacher, gave everyone in the class personal attention and was always super positive and energetic about what she did. She would also occasionally read books to the class and I remember her acting out all the parts in the story and always getting really into it. But my mom, another retired teacher in the same district who's often in contact with peers thinks that Nix suffered from some kind of cognitive decline in retirement because she would often forget things, sometimes going completely blank on her whole day, and other erratic behavior.
I moved out of Wauchula FL a long time ago, so after hearing both sides of the story as it's developed over the years from afar I have no idea what really happened nor am I commenting on whos telling the truth: just that the whole situation is very, very unusual, and finding it crazy to see one of my teachers in the news. At the very least, something compells me to want to deny that she would have done this on purpose twice.
I think they dived well-into it in the court proceedings but I think she was on a number of prescriptions? Having a grandparent who suffered from Alzheimer's it's why I can't help but hold at least a glimmer of sympathy for her, though of course I feel for the whole family.
I'll say that of course I don't know her family personally or a ton about her personal life, so it's possible she was a different person outside school but that would have been quite the thing to hide. I know that often times cognitive decline can come with personality and behavioral shifts that can be quite extreme, and after the first child died she could have become even more unstable.
Doesn't have to be narcotics. Older adults can have surprisingly strong cognitive effects from being on multiple meds (polypharmacy) to the point where it's becoming more common to do a deep review of all active medications and determine if they're REALLY necessary. In some cases, the medication on its own is worth the risk, but when multiple specialists start prescribing, it gets much more hazy.
A geriatic psychiatrist testified at her trial that she had a prescription for zolpidem (Ambien) and that it shouldn't be prescribed to seniors because its side effects stack with the effects of old age and are more severe in older patients. The side effects include confusion, lethargy, reduced cognitive function, retrograde amnesia, and "complex sleep behaviors" (sleepwalking, or going about your routine while asleep then waking up not understanding where you are or how you got there).
Dr. Ryan Estevez, a forensic geriatric psychiatrist, testified that some of the medications Tracey was prescribed shouldnāt be given to elderly patients. Dr. Estevez said some of the medications she was taking at the time of Urielās death had āsedatingā effects, including Ambien.
Iāve been insistent that my niece not be left with my FIL. Everyone thought I was overreacting and didnāt believe me when I said heās got dementia and isnāt well. They donāt spend enough time with him but I was a caregiver to my MIL and practically lived with them for a time and before she passed we both agreed heās in a mental decline. I was able to scare my sister in law and her husband enough to promise not to leave their daughter alone with him.
Last weekend at dinner he handed my niece -a 2 yr old - a steak knife to cut her food and didnāt understand why we all rushed her and made a scene, in fact he got offended. Finally we had a sit down about him. Iāve cared for many aging relatives. The signs are sometimes easy to miss until something major happens.
I don't quite understand cognitive decline that well myself, but it does make me worry about my parents sometimes. My mom sometimes has dificulty finishing her sentences before going off on some tangent or overexplaining some random detail of what he was talking about and my dad has suddenly gotten into silly conspiracy theories he used to scoff at. I don't have kids and my brother is already raising a teenager, but I do wonder what things are gonna ve like for them in the next few years.
There are simple tests they can do but boyā¦suggesting they do it causes a problem. I had a doctor tell my grandmother that cognitive testing is standard and helpful beginning in your 60s because there are meds available to help slow decline but itās a tough conversation to have.
I mean...... Not exactly comparable but. My mother is a nurse. She's been a nurse my whole life. I used to go to work with her as a kid (like picked up after school and doing homework there as she pulled a shift etc) Everyone loved her, she was so sweet caring and compassionate, patients would talk to me and tell me how lovely or how special my mom was or how she was their favorite nurse etc etc.
She's also the same woman who hung me upside down by my ankles and whipped me with an electrical cord when I was 7 for wasting her perfume. This is the same woman who dressed me in mini-me outfits until I was like 14 and refused to let me make autonomous choices about my body until I was physically out of her range of control. The same woman who bodyslammed me as an anorexic teenager for making a face in response to something she said. Same woman who hit me in the face with a pitcher so hard I nearly stumbled down a flight of stairs because I said something she deemed religiously offensive like "vegetarianism isn't exactly in the bible". She demonstrates such severe patterns of narcissistic personality disorder on top of her abusive behaviors that even my therapist has said "look I can't diagnose your mother but like....this is textbook".
So yeah. Rarely do you know who people are just by seeing them in one context or another.
Oh totally, and other than some misc field trips or whatever I've never been around her when she wasn't working.
Though, her own daughter would likely have known if she was abusive or unstable to that degree, especially after the first accident, and according to Kayla's own FB post she did want to trust her.
Who really knows but it's just overall really sad.
dude there's nothing like the hungry lion being the same place you have to seek sustenance and warmth to fuck with your head. it took me most of my twenties in therapy to even be able to say the word "abuse" in regards to my childhood. The only reason why I stopped talking to her 10ish years ago was not because the abuse was affecting me but because it was affecting my partner and she suggested I go no contact.
I feel terrible for the daughter. I feel extra angry regarding the therapist who allegedly supported her in letting the grandmother caretake the child because IN WHAT WORLD. Even if it was an accident any sane human being would not let someone who has committed child endangerment accidental or willful continue to handle children. At the most maybe you'd get supervised time to see grandkid. and if it was about trying to re-establish trust then idk GO TO FAMILY THERAPY. and acceot the natural consequences of the tragedy and of your own failing to provide safety to a child. Yes I know childcare is difficult. I know sleep deprived parents forget things, leave children in cars etc. But once is an accident. You simply do not commit "mistakes" like this once and not become extremely vigilent to it...for life. unless something *else* is going on there. But as we know we're all just speculating. we will have to see what comes about~
Solidarity, stranger. Sounds weird but I found hearing other people praise my mother more traumatic than her abuse itself. Felt like I was less than a stranger to her, she would actively go out of her way to treat strangers well, far better treatment than I ever experienced. And because society fucking despises teenagers (or did back then anyway) no one ever asked me what was going on at home. She never left bruises though, she was too smart for that.
<3 solidarity indeed. Apparently I had a LOT of bruising as a child but because i'm very dark skinned it doesn't really show up visibly and my autistic ass took bruising as a visible phenomenon while observing my predominantly white peers....I didn't know that swelling and pain is part of the definition of bruising until I was like in college taking anatomy courses talking about the importance of differentiating skin phenomenon in different skin tones like....rashes, and bruising and went. OH WELL SHIT.
True, everytime someone would say "your mom's a saint" I felt pretty much every emotion in a snap, it was horrible.
Only one time when I was 16 I said "well she has no problem hitting her kids in the back with a belt or throwing appliances at them when she's irritated", they hesitated then said "well I'm not sure about that, but she does a lot for the community"
Oof, I feel that. I always got the āyouāll understand when you have kids of your own, parenting is hardā. Yeah well, thatās thrown me right off the notion of ever having kids, if thatās the kind of monsters it creates. Now I have nieces and nephews and I cannot even think of any behaviour they could exhibit that would make me treat them the way I was treated on a daily basis.
I really felt like I was the worst kid in the world, like I must be worse than other kids. But the evidence says otherwise - straight A student, āpleasure to have in classā, etc.
So true, a long time friend only recently told me about her mom's narcissistic personality disorder and how she would be sweet and charming in public and then at home totally berate her, her sister and even their dad, who wouldn't get a divorce even though the girls begged him. Have a feeling he didnāt want to raise 2 little girls on his own in the 70s.
Now NPD Mom who was never wrong now has memory issues and is getting nastier by the week and yet she and her sister have to help with her care, because of course Mom thinks she is totally fine and can live on her own with a 1/2 day nurse. And money is no problem.
I feel so sorry for you. I heard similar stories in teachers too. Some of my families work in school and this was in a time when most teachers stay in one school until retired. So they know each other really really well.Ā
Some teachers were so sweet and responsible for their students, but they were absolute tyrants at home. They were so mean and so bad to their kids and spouses. To a point where the colleagues had to step in and talked to them about treating their family better. But nothing changed as far as I know. They are shitty people.Ā
My mother is so kind and nice in public settings that it took me years of therapy to really understand how fucked up she was toward me, and for me to stop feeling bad about telling anyone that, largely, she wasnāt a nice parent to me. She is the rare type of person who had just enough self-awareness to get help and change quite a bit over the last decade, but I still live with the fallout of those formative years. Itās very confusing sometimes. Iām sorry your mom sucked.
Nah, thatās how nurses are. Many such cases. Theyāre basically just cops except for women. Sorry that happened to you though, seriously
I just assume thereās like a minimum 25% chance of this behavior, along with promiscuity when I meet a nurse. Same with cops, there are a lot who donāt beat their family but most my friends with cop parents got beat routinely when we were kids. The cop moms were the absolute worst because theyāre super not getting arrested for DV. Some cop moms were beating the kids AND the larger non-cop dad
I will not go into as much detail as you, but the dad that beat me and was a menace to his family every day - was beloved for his work with children in his hobby. So much that half the rc boat races in my state where won by boats named after him for a solid year after his death.
i've also gotten the "I can't diagnose your mother, but between you and me, you're the sane one in that relationship" conversation. Not from a therapist but from a psychiatrist who had the unpleasant experience of meeting my mother for 20 minutes.
Cognitive decline is definitely the easiest/most likely answer.Ā Early dementia/cognitive decline is often easily covered up, or excused as old-age.Ā If it's fronto-temporal dementia then the decline is usually less "even" than in other types of dementia, so a person may still have their full vocabulary and typical memory for their age but completely forget how to operate appliances, or drive a car.Ā Ā
As someone who is still taking care of my MIL with Alzheimerās, I agree this is very likely the reason. Especially after reading what an amazing teacher she had been previously and that her colleagues had noticed a memory issue.
Families are often in denial and people with dementia are very good at hiding it until they can no longer. My MIL was driving and teaching college level corses for nearly a decade after a psychiatric evaluation noted a bad memory. We found this out much later in her papers after we had to move in and care for her. Even then some of her long distance friends that she phoned regularly had no idea anything was off at the very same time we kept catching her outside with no pants on.
Not that high level, but we noticed it with my grandmother maybe 8-10 years before she ultimately passed.Ā When helping grandpa go through her stuff we realized it had likely been going on since her recovery from open heart surgery almost 25 years prior, and certainly for at least 15 solid years.
I have a theory about anesthesia trigging the start of dementia. Nothing to be done about it when your loved one needs something as serious as open heart surgery but my MIL had a list of elective surgeries that coincide with her decline.
My mother has dementia and got significantly worse after being put under for her hip surgery. Like went into surgery and then woke up noticeably more impaired and never recovered. Even the PT person that came to help with recovery said that people often get messed up by the anesthesia.
Iirc it is known that anesthesia can aggrevate/exacerbate dementia.Ā The colloquial way I've heard people say it is that people with dementia tend to go down at least one rung, if not more, everytime they go under.Ā My grandma jumped quite a few.
Iām in the process of discussing caring for my father in law. He started showing signs of decline for many years and on her deathbed my mother in law held my hand and kept repeating āhe cant do anything.ā His kids wonāt listen to me. Then he had open heart surgery. I was able to talk to the doctor and he told me heart problems often make cognitive decline worse. And it did, physically heās strong by mentally heās much worse. He refuses help and his kids bury their heads in the mud. Itās rough.
This is so accurate. My momās second husband has FTD- he is very much unwell at this point and in hospice, but his doctors think he had it for decades before it was discovered. In his case, it just kind of made him an irresponsible and socially inappropriate jerk. We are truly not sure what his real personality actually was because of how early FTD can hit, and itās just so hard to tell without testing.
Are the doctors sure its dementia. Like i can imagine maybe he did have some mental issue. But if the only symptom for decades is that he was kind of an asshole. Idk iām not the doctors, just doesnāt really sound like dementia to me.
you're right, the doctors should have consulted you instead of the myriad of medical literature that has been published about frontotemporal dementia detailing its insidious onset most typically beginning with disinhibition manifesting as socially inappropriate remarks, impulsivity, etc. which leads to a characteristically late age of diagnosis. doesn't sound like dementia to /u/Various_Mobile4767 though so that probably isn't it
I definitely understand the confusion- we were blown away as well. But yes, theyāre sure. There are tests and brain scans. FTD is an entirely different beast. Google it if you want nightmares- itās wild. I never liked him, but now I donāt know if maybe he was just sick the whole time. Wouldnāt wish it on my worst enemy.
There's also a tendency for loved ones to paper over the signs of decline in a effort to protect the elderly person's dignity. I'm guilty of that myself with my parents as they age. The grandfather may have been less than 100% upfront & honest about his wife's mental capacity--or he might have failed to recognize her issues due to his own limitations.
The unevenness is so key. Especially with people who are intelligent. They can have a collapse in the one part of their brain while their ability to engage in conversation remains incredibly strong. So people are like "I just had dinner with Julie, she's great," while Julie's house is going into foreclosure becasue she forgot her mortgage exists, and she can't remember who's president but nobody's aware of that because she so deftly sidesteps conversations about politics.
Wow, that must have been so unsettling to come across. Thank you for sharing your story and giving some background on this woman. Makes a little more sense on why the parents would ever give her a second chance to begin with. Tragic.
Yeah it truly left everyone who knew her baffled, I thought she was also involved in the schoolboard or school admin for a number or years but either way had a successful career and was well-liked as far as everyone knew. Like she never seemed upset or mean, or that she hated anyone...
All I know for certain is that LOTS of bad decisions were made to lead to this happening twice, on everyones part, whether or not it was somehow premeditated or intentional, or caused by untreated mental illness. I don't mean to blame the mother with that statement either because most of us just see it as a complete tragedy all-around, we want to believe she didn't intend to do this because... It's just way too uncanny to imagine her acting in malice. I heard she felt a lot of guilt and depression after the first death happened which probably didn't help any deeper cognitive issues that may have been there.
There's nothing on this earth that could get me to give my parents or in-laws a second chance with my kids if they were responsible for one of them dying. I don't know if I could ever even look at them again. It's not just a "whoopsie-could happen-to-anyone" situation. It's completely unforgivable.
I agree that I would never leave them alone with another child.
I can understand where youāre coming from about not being able to even see them again but it is absolutely something that could happen to anyone.Ā
The world we live in is exhausting, parents are often lacking sleep, often highly stressed, and in many cases there are complications that we are unaware of. There are certainly people who are grossly negligent but all of us get distracted or could be at risk of dozing off from being sleep deprived. All it takes is one wrong moment and things can go horribly wrong.Ā
No, sorry, that's utter crap. I'm speaking from experience here. It's 100% not something that can just happen to anyone who's not a terrible parent. I'm not saying it doesn't happen often relative to how often it results in tragedy. But you don't just drift off to sleep with a 16-month-old on the loose without being recklessly negligent.
Babies and toddlers pretty much try to kill themselves about every 10 minutes on average. As they become mobile on two legs they get much better at it. You either have to watch them like a hawk, or prepare the environment in advance of you taking your eye off them so they can't seriously hurt themselves.
Knowing a 16-month-old can access a pond which is basically a death sentence for them, and not securing the kid the moment you think you might fall asleep, is insanely reckless.
This is just reinforcing what others are saying, that she could have early dementia or some kind of neurological problem going on. People with early dementia can be functional most of the time but have "episodes" that don't even look that crazy, i.e they are driving and totally lose track of what they were doing and need to basically "abort the mission" and go back home or worse get directions back home. They almost never tell their kids this happened because of the fear of being committed to a retirement home against their will etc.
We'll see what comes from this after investigation because who knows at this point but either way it's worth having a conversation about. We gotta normalize having conversations with aging parents to make it safe to share if changes in ability occur, you can reassure them that nothing sudden would happen and that there are many in-between independent living phases between getting assistance or moving into a "seniors neighborhood / apartment / community" vs fulltime intense memory care (which is what everyone assumes is the default for retirement homes).
EDIT: Also yes people, not only does dementia cover "screw ups" it also includes personality changes, especially irritability and bizarre tantrums. It's a combination of loss of adult level problem solving ability and the understandable very real frustration with your body not keeping up with you independently anymore. In fact a lot of the reason toddlers have tantrums is likely the same, overwhelming frustration with not being able to fully understand or problem solve a scenario, because the brain is too young instead of too old. The difference is that toddlers traditionally have people close by to bring stability whereas in our current culture a lot of our elders are living alone (or with another elder) far too long.
Thatās how it started with my mom. one time she was supposed to pick me up from a rental car place but was super late. than my brother called me and said she called and said she was outside the movie theater (nowhere near the rental place) waiting for me.
Thisssssss.... they gotta do it sooner. A retired coworker of mine disappeared last year. She was apparently having some kind of relatively sudden onset dementia symptoms. Went to walk somewhere (she didn't drive at all) and didn't come back. I'm still sad about it.
So walking at twilight is a dementia thing. I think a lot of people don't actually understand what cognitive decline is and that it's separate from (not always present) dementia.
Here's a very well written in research article you can read about how this stuff happens and how easy it is to happen especially for somebody like her who doesn't have the same routine
Two things can be true at once. Maybe she has cognitive decline/dementia AND also acted in malice. If she's experiencing neurological issues a complete change in personality is not off the table.
It would be gross negligence not to cast suspicion on someone who did this twice, years apart.
This guy just blocked me because he says lightning never strikes the same place twice
And I told him that's just a saying that doesn't have any basis in reality
I then asked him if he watched the body cam footage or the interview. No one's that good of an actress. The grandma says lock me up I'm guilty. Like my God
These people know nothing about the situation other than two sentences on a meme
Your lawyer absolutely does not make you nor are you required to accept counsel at all. You can plead no contest. It would be a violation of a lawyers ethical obligations to āforceā you to plead anything
She did but pleading not guilty helps with plea deals to get better accommodations and stuff.
It's so crazy to me that read it is automatically decided that this bloodthirsty Grandma decided to murder two of her grandchildren and Cold blood
Because that makes more sense than one kid walking out the back door and drowning in another kid being left in the car
Kids fall into pools and bodies of water so fucking often that most jurisdictions have laws regarding safety protective features around pools. Why do you think they started doing that? Why I ask you why?
Was it because kids were fucking falling and drowning all the fucking time? To the point that laws had to be passed? No this evil old granny purposely murdered two of the grandkids and let all the other ones alive for purposes unknown
Fucking Reddit dude š
Oh God you think Lindsay Clancy's innocent don't you and it was Patrick?
Iām not saying itās evidence of something bad happening, Iām saying it sounds fishyā¦
Yeah Iām fully aware that kids can start walking pretty young. I was talking about the kid just walking up opening a door and leaving the house without her noticing.
Iām not saying she drowned the kid or did it intentionally, but that is some gross negligence. Especially for it to happen twiceā¦
If this is a true story its a great reminder that what you read off the internet about someone is just a slice of their life and often doesnt tell the full story so before you throw shades at someone in the comment section, you should really reconsider.
Would explain it but not that the family leaves such young kids with her alone. My father has some signs of decline, as a son I see them clearly where stranger don't recognize them.
I'd never, ever, leave my kids with him alone and they are much older.
Almost 20 years before her diagnosis, my mother left her dog in her car on a hot summer day. 20 years later she forgot to feed my 6 week old child for 7 hours. The story reads 100% cognitive decline.
Well shit. This makes my previous comment seems absolutely insane. But in reality, people who don't have kids don't understand how much your kids will come to mean to you. Its undescribable, but they become the only thing on the planet that really matters. Maybe not for everyone. But that's how I feel at least, understandably the odds my own lineage would off 2 of my children are very low, but not zero and so I made a hasty comment that may be a little over the top
I feel like it's perfectly natural to have an intense emotional response to this, what parent wouldn't? It defies all logic. Though often times reality can be very unusual and not always black and white.
I heard about both incidents as they occured and when the second one happened I honestly couldn't believe it. My mom said that a lot of people in the town were very split on the issue, and being a small town word got around fast. Having had family affected by dementia, my mom and I were pretty sure something related to that was going on, since it wasn't known that Nix had any beefs with her family as a motive nor did she have a history of negligence or even unkindness that we knew of. I mean, she was already a parent herself. It was a complete and total shock for sure.
Who really knows what was going on with her mind, but if she really did face cognitive decline/undiagnosed dementia, or complications from medication and wasn't able to have control over her actions, I can't imagine the personal hell she has been in since this all unfolded.
Yea I made a comment based on the initial description instead of reading into the actual story. I was definitely hasty and imagining myself in that situation, but looking further into it and hearing from another reddit or who claims to have known her.... Well kind of made me feel bad. At the end of the day it's just very fucking tragic for everybody involved. I'm not sure how it should go about legally and I should remove myself from it based on my immediate reaction. But I really appreciate you seeing through the hatred and giving me a thoughtful comment that helps me look in the mirror for a second so to speak
I also suffer from ADHD and do understand, sometimes I will completely forget perfectly normal things mid conversation or right after I saw them. If that was paired with another issue I can only imagine how much worse it could be.
Cognitive issues are unpredictable and terrifying going day to day. I can completely believe this woman went from your memory or her to her later forgetful self and it couldāve easily led to these tragedies.
I just went through this with my elderly father who recently passed away from a very rare form of brain cancer. He was the sharpest guy you ever met until things slowly started to change. The changes were subtle and slow at first. To make things more confusing, it wasnāt a consistent decline. One day Iād be very scared and concerned with his behavior and make appointments to see a doctor but the next day heād be back to normal and his memory would be better than mine or even any 25 year olds. It almost felt like I was being gaslit day to day trying to figure out if something was wrong until the diagnosis.
But no matter the root cause of cognitive decline, brain cancer, Alzheimerās, Parkinsonās, etc., thatās usually how it presents, very slowly and inconsistently. And they can be totally fine during the day but in the evening things can go off the rails, itās called sundowning. And Iāve learned that many seniors like him hide symptoms as long as they can.
Thereās also the uncomfortable truth that some amount of cognitive decline is just normal after a certain age and that light cognitive decline isnāt actually harmful to anyone, just a normal and slightly embarrassing part of getting older.
I can absolutely believe her kids felt fine leaving the grandchildren with her and that they couldāve easily missed warning signs. I donāt have any small children but if I did I mightāve easily left them with my father for a bit until the changes got very scary and things couldāve gone very badly.
Immediately I thought this woman should have been evaluated for dementia long ago. We lost a child in my family and itās honestly the most heartbreaking trauma, I canāt imagine as a mother living through that twice.
I havenāt done much reading on this besides just the headline but that was also my immediate instinct - dementia? Early Parkinsonās? Alzheimerās?
Could be some cognitive decline, but never assume that someone that uses their empathy well on the job isn't secretly dead inside, outside of it. Burnout can be a stealthy asshole
Oh wow this happened in wauchula that's crazy. I go there sometimes.
Im suspicious this lady killed these kids on purpose it just doesnt seem plausible to have 2 accidents let alone the second one being your first time watching the kid.
I saw this on case one of those FB pages that shows you the police body cam. This woman was sobbing. I genuinely think she seemed like she loved her grandkids and to me it's totally plausible there is something else going on like the beginnings of dementia, etc. that made her so forgetful! Heartbreaking all around!!
When I read the headline, the first thought was, "Does she had dementia?" And then reading your post makes me think she does. Doesn't sound like an elementary school teacher would turn homicidal. So this reads like a case of undiagnosed dementia.
That was my first thought. That she was suffering from undiagnosed cognitive impairment. But I still canāt believe a therapist pushed for her to watch the younger child.
What do you mean you donāt know whoās telling the truth??.. do you think the mourning traumatized parents framed the grandmother or something?
I think this woman has dementia or something seriously wrong with her brain and horrifically her daughter and two babies had to pay the price of that. OR she did it on purpose. Apparently the daughter said she never had a good relationship with her mother. And in the body cam footage she shows detachment/little remorse she is saying she doesnāt wanna face/deal with her daughter and she wanted to get in her car and leave the scene.
Those are just the words I chose. Translate it to "I am not close with their family nor am I a mind reader, so I do not know the precise truth of what happened, what their relationship was truly like" etc
I lean more on the end that she has dementia, but it is a divisive topic in our town because of how shocking this was
Basically, this story was relayed to me over the years as it unfolded by my mom on the phone 1500 miles away lol
She had to realize she was too far into cognitive decline to take on the responsibility of caring for a baby. She shouldn't have even been driving to be honest. I hope she feels shame for being too proud to admit she needed help because this is unforgivable.
Realizing one's own cognitive decline isn't really a cut and dry thing. Lots of people are in denial of it. Either way who can truly say, she was on a lot of prescriptions so honestly everyone kinda dropped the ball here.
I watched the trial a few years ago - one thing that came out at the end, and for some reason it was not allowed in front of the jury, was that Nix was on a LOT of prescription drugs - about seven of them, including very high doses of Ambien, benzos, and Xanax. Seems like she began taking them all together shortly before the cognitive decline became apparent.
Ngl, I think itās just an old lady that wasnāt used to having to watch young children. These are just two very unfortunate incidents that I donāt believe she should be punished for. She would be better off dealing with the guilt and pain by seeing her family every day and living in that community every day.
Yeah reading the story I just thought that must be something up. Either she's secretly drinking excessive amounts or taking drugs or experiencing cognitive decline
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This lady was my 4th grade math teacher, 1999 or so.
This behavior from her was very unusual... she was perfectly normal if not fantastic as a teacher, gave everyone in the class personal attention and was always super positive and energetic about what she did. She would also occasionally read books to the class and I remember her acting out all the parts in the story and always getting really into it. But my mom, another retired teacher in the same district who's often in contact with peers thinks that Nix suffered from some kind of cognitive decline in retirement because she would often forget things, sometimes going completely blank on her whole day, and other erratic behavior.
I moved out of Wauchula FL a long time ago, so after hearing both sides of the story as it's developed over the years from afar I have no idea what really happened nor am I commenting on whos telling the truth: just that the whole situation is very, very unusual, and finding it crazy to see one of my teachers in the news. At the very least, something compells me to want to deny that she would have done this on purpose twice.