I was thinking about April being a bad month, too. It seems very strange. I wonder what it is?
I don't know, but what I can say is that students are becoming more and more confrontational and direct in their behavior.
About 3-4 years ago, the college where I am assigned to started holding classroom management sessions because teacher (and students) were complaining of more and more disruptive students in class. Students appear to be more "in your face" to faculty when they don't get the grade they want.
It's been a strange Spring semester. One students was arrested for masturbating and ejaculating all over a monitor, keyboard and mouse - this was during the day in a *public* area of the College. Another student was masturbating in a restroom - and leaving pornographic pictures in the stall after he was done. This student was also caught. n.b. - Both students are again attending the college.
Certainly nothing like the massacre at VaTech, but students are more direct and confrontational, engaging in behaviors that are clearly out of bounds, and don't seem to care about the consequences for their actions.
The American Revolution (Started with Paul Revere's Ride: April 18-19 April 1775)
The American Civil War (Started April, 1861, ended April, 1865, thus "Across Five Aprils")
The Bosnian War began in the first days of April, 1992
The Rwandan Genocide began in April, 1994
The Armenian Genocide began in April 24, 1914
Other events that have occurred in the month of April include:
President Abraham Lincoln's assassination (April 14, 1865)
The Frank Slide (April 29, 1903)
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (April 18, 1906)
The sinking of the RMS Titanic (April 14-15 April 1912)
The Armenian Genocide (April 24, 1915)
Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination (April 4, 1968)
Super Tornado Outbreak (April 3-4, 1974)
Chernobyl nuclear accident (April 26, 1986)
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots after the Rodney King verdict (April 29, 1992)
The bloody end to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas (April 19, 1993)
The Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995)
In Lebanon, at least 106 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell
the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre). (April 18, 1996) The Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia (April 28, 1996)
The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado (April 20, 1999)
The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia (April 16, 2007).