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Published on December 28, 2006
"I just really want to get out of here," she says. "I just really want to get out of Beaumont."
She wants to transfer her credits to the University of Houston, she says, where she'll study to become an elementary school teacher.
"School is not what it used to be," she says. "How I hear my momma and my daddy talk, when he played football and my momma was slender and she was a cheerleader and everything, it was good back then. Teachers cared, you know, teachers were like parents. If you did something wrong, they would call home and let parents know. They would discipline you if they knew your mommaÂ
"Now BISD, especially at the administration building, they want to keep everything hush-hush, and it shouldn't be like that over there."
Libby says she hasn't spoken to Granger since her accusations came out, but she knows it'll happen in court, where she plans to say:
"Can you just tell the truth so we all can just go home and everybody can go on with their life?"
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