VIDEO: Interesting Facts about the Bath School Disaster that SHOCKED a Whole Country!

Unfortunately, a lot of people have chosen schools to kill a lot of people and get their message known or try and satisfy their psycho needs. While all of them are horribly tragic and should never have happened there is one that turned out a lot worse than the rest.

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It’s been 90 years since this horrible tragedy but people are still shocked by what happened at this school from Bath and many don’t still understand how this could have happened.

According to mlive.com, the Bath school disaster is the deadliest school massacre in the nation’s history. A total of 45 people died, including 38 children and the perpetrator.

Andrew Kehoe, the man who blew up Bath Consolidated School, was school board treasurer and former Bath Township clerk.

A graduate of Michigan State College, where he studied electrical engineering, Kehoe was considered highly intelligent and he owned one of the finest farms in the area.  Although he could be difficult at times, he was generally well-regarded and well-respected.

“There couldn’t be a better neighbor than him,” one Bath resident told investigators after the massacre.

“I never saw a saner man,” said another.

The conventional wisdom is that Kehoe dynamited the school because he was angry about his school property taxes. For years, he was a vocal opponent of spending $43,000 in 1922 to build Bath Consolidated School, which led to a big tax hike. He won a three-year term to the school board in 1925, and was known for keeping a critical eye on school finances.

Kehoe owned 80 acres of farmland that had an assessed value of $10,000 in 1927 — about $139,000 in today’s dollars. His school tax bill was $198 in 1927, which is equivalent to $2,758 today.

In the few years leading up to the bombing, Kehoe had a number of personal setbacks: He was having financial problems, and wasn’t paying his mortgage or his taxes; he lost an election for township clerk, and his wife was in failing health. Despite his financial issues, his neighbors noticed he seemed to have given up on farming, having failed to harvest his crops in fall 1926.

By spring 1927,  Kehoe was in danger of losing everything important in his life: His wife was seriously ill; he was talking of selling the farm to pay off his mortgage, and his school board term was expiring in July 1927. It’s telling that on May 18, he destroyed everything — bombing the school, killing his wife and leveling his farm — before they were taken from him.

Kehoe not only destroyed the school, but he methodically destroyed his house and farm, which was his wife’s childhood home.

At the edge of the farm, authorities found a sign attached to a fence: “Criminals are made, not born.” He did not leave a note in which to explain his actions and motifs, but this sign makes things a little more clear as he blames everyone but himself for what had happened.