Bish's Classmates: We Won't Give Up
Students Return To School In Warren
Students at Quaboag Regional High
School in Warren started the new school year Thursday without one of their
most popular classmates.
Molly Bish vanished from her summer life guarding job at Comins
Pond June 27 and hasn't been seen since. Authorities believe that she
was the victim of foul play.
"Being in such a small town here it makes you wonder who it is that took her," Bish's classmate Kate Christiansen said. "Everybody will say that maybe she ran away but we all know Molly very well and we'd be with her if she ran away."
Friends and classmates told NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff that they are fearful about returning to school.
"It's just hard without her we miss her and we just want her to come home," Christiansen said.
The director of a grief counseling program at Boston Medical
Center has held meetings with parents, teachers and school
administrators over the past couple of days.
Principal Jerry Badger said that he knows that some students will have a hard time concentrating on school subjects.
"We all know that sometimes in life bad things happen to good people," Badger said. "It's part of our growing up and part of our education to our youngsters so that they can handle it when bad things happen."
Yellow ribbons hang in all the classrooms at the Warren school, and although teacher were asked not to wear the Molly pins students are encouraged to wear them if they choose.
"We want to keep hoping," Bish's classmate, Kayla Gogos, said. "We are not going to give up."
Meanwhile, Molly's mother has also returned to school.
Magi Bish is a teacher at the Old Mill Pond School in Palmer, Mass.
She said that her first-grade students are a "gentle diversion" that
help her feel alive again.
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