Article: A teacher-student bond that may have foiled murder.(USA)

Byline: Christina McCarroll Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. -- The walls of Rachel Jupin's class are covered with homemade posters of grinning Greek gods. Her twelfth-graders read "Hamlet." Her freshmen pour over "The Odyssey."

But somewhere between the Straits of Messina and "To be, or not to be," a plot of intrigue, romance, and alleged murder unfolded in this Massachusetts coastal city. It could have led, police say, to a Columbine-like massacre.

Instead, it was apparently foiled by an unusual bond between Mrs. Jupin and a student - a tie that underscores how vital the student-teacher connection can ...

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