by Tena Starr
Although Vermont has been spared a school shooting, one of the many things that “Stella,” a classroom teacher, frets about these days is violence. Responsibility for keeping her young students safe weighs heavily on her.
“The rise in school shootings is so scary,” she said. “It can happen anywhere, we know this. So often I think about where I could hide my kids so they wouldn’t be seen from windows in the door or from outside. Which pieces of furniture would be easiest and quickest to move in front of an entry point? Or which pieces could protect children? Will the door close quickly enough?
“If we have to escape, where will we go? I fear opening my classroom windows because a bullet goes through screens. Mostly I fear not being able to protect every child and one or more of them gets killed.”
This is the second part of a series we are writing in an effort to illustrate the challenges educators, and classroom teachers in particular…
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