"Time/Life Magazine" asked a student at Central Junior High about the incident involving her former classmate, Kellie-Jean Poppleton.

The student, who declined to give her name, had nervously replied, "Nobody talks about Kellie-Jean Nobody wants to draw attention to themselves. We're all scared..."

"Time/Life Magazine" reporters went to two campuses: Central Junior High and Conrad Noll Middle School, to interview students and faculty about the incidents of the previous December, which had drawn national attention to this relatively quiet, middle-class Northern California community of...