ANDERSON COUNTY — Monday was a day spent remembering Taylor Dickson at Wren Middle School.

On Saturday he was the victim of a shooting at his home near Easley; his brother has been charged in his death and the shooting deaths of three others in his family.

The normal bustle of middle school students was subdued, said Principal Robin Fulbright.

“It was very, very quiet (this morning); not a lot of conversation,” Fulbright said. “You could tell the kids were still working through it. We had the pledge and a moment of silence.

“We didn’t do announcements,” Fulbright said. “About 8:10 we had kids coming out of the classrooms and coming into the media center.”

School counselors and local church leaders and agencies were set up in the school’s media center, ready to help any child who needed to talk.

A long yellow poster hung above the hallway lockers, nearly every inch covered in colored messages to a young man who won’t be forgotten.

“Man I’m going to miss you. I’ll never forget you and that bag o potato chips we downed in Mrs. Whites class. I wish I was the friend I should have been. Love, Scooter.”

More notes hung from Taylor’s locker, along with a string cheese stick.

“Students have spent the day sharing memories, working through their emotions,” Fulbright said. “Our goal for the day was to help our children work through their grief. They have really done well.”

Teacher Bobby Rollins said Taylor “was a joy to teach.”

“He was a wonderful and fun-loving young man, full of life. Taylor was well liked by his friends and classmates.

“Taylor always had positive things to say and he was very respectful to all of his teachers,” Rollins said. “Taylor will be greatly missed by everyone at school and in the community.”

Not a lot of students were absent, and not many went home early, she said.

“They’re sad, they’re very sad,” Fulbright said. “We have found the students are seeking support from each other.”

A number of students took white T-shirts and wrote messages on them, wearing them to school in Taylor’s memory.

“We’ll Never Forget!,” was written in black marker on eighth-grader Kahrell Wright’s white T-shirt. R.I.P. 4/26 was written across the four fingers on his left hand, the date signifying when Taylor died.

“(Taylor) made everyone laugh,” Kahrell said. “He loved trippin’ people out.”