Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Cambridge Teacher: ‘He Was A Sweetheart’

By Lisa Tobin April 19, 2013

BOSTON — Larry Aaronson says he is “utterly shocked” by the news that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Aaronson taught social studies at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, where Dzokhar was a student and — according to Aaronson and other reports — an outstanding wrestler. Dzhokhar also lives just about three houses down from Aaronson’s condo, so they would talk from time to time after Dzhokhar’s graduation in 2011.

“I will say to you and to anyone who asks me,” Aaronson told WBUR’s David Boeri outside his home in Cambridge on Friday morning, “he had a heart of gold, he was a sweetheart, he was gracious, he was caring, he was compassionate.”

Boston Marathon Bombing: Significant Developments:

Monday, April 15: Bombs at the Marathon finish line kill three and injure hundreds more
Thursday, April 18: Black hat and white hat: FBI releases photos and video of suspects
Thursday and Friday, April 18-19: MIT police officer is killed; shootout in Watertown; one suspect dies, other escapes
Friday, April 19: Manhunt for surviving suspect as Boston area is put on lockdown

Friday evening, April 19: Lockdown lifted; suspect is located and captured in Watertown
Monday, April 22: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with using a weapon of mass destruction
Wednesday, May 1: Three college friends of Dzhokhar accused of disposing of backpack
More Coverage: Boston Marathon Bombings

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whyyyyyy…what happend to this child over the past couple years that would make him do this???
- ByondPolitics
  
  He was led to study Islamic terrorists through his schoolwork at CRLS
- http://www.facebook.com/lily.louis.180 Lily P Louis
  
  He’s not a child. Stop making excuses.
http://www.facebook.com/groenhagen Kevin Groenhagen

Larry Aaronson used Howard Zinn’s anti-American and anti-Israel “A People’s History of the United States” in his classroom. One has to wonder if that book influenced Tsarnaev.
- http://www.facebook.com/lily.louis.180 Lily P Louis
  
  No Kevin. Stop blaming the classroom. There was something fundamentally wrong with the person. Studying something in a class does not change your character unless your character wants that to be so.
  - Forky Witherspoon
    
    All evidence to the contrary.
http://www.facebook.com/lily.louis.180 Lily P Louis

Sadly, we continue to base our impressions on very superficial observations. An outstanding wrestler? Doesn’t tell us anything!!!!!! There was something seriously, horrendously wrong with the man, yet he apparently could hide it so well. What does that tell us about “our observations”?
Forky Witherspoon

Aaronson is a piece of filth. He basically has blood on his hands for remaining silent after he refused to believe his own eyes. That cop they murdered may have been saved. How does this incompetent moron sleep at night??
http://www.facebook.com/alice.morland.7 Alice Morland

They say all sociopath’s are quite charming.