School Emergencies

My Kindergarten Class

Yesterday was a tragic day in America. 20 children died in School. They were 6 and 7. Their parents took them to school in the morning and expected to pick them up. Twenty families have empty holes in them now. FOREVER! The news we hear changes all the time. First we heard the shooter was 24 and then we find out it was his 20 year old brother that was the shooter. First we hear he had three guns, two pistols he brought into the school and a rifle in the car and then we hear he had two pistols and a rifle in the school and another rifle in his car. First we hear his mother worked in the school and then we find out she was maybe a volunteer in the school and didn't really officially work with the school. First we hear that ... well, you get the idea, no one really knows exactly what happened except 20 children woke up on Friday morning and were dead before Friday noon. If this doesn't put a tear in your eye then look at the kids in the picture above, and think about those kids will 2 - 3 bullets in each of them, imagine the blood on the ground around them, imagine the other children having to walk past them as they ran out of their school, imagine how it felt to be the person that had to put their bodies in the body bags and take them to the morgue. I don't think there is a word that can express the feeling I have writing this. I hope to God this never happens again.

Scott at age 7

I don't want to hear about gun control, like that could have prevented this from happening. I don't want to hear about banning assault rifles and automatic rifles because those weren't used in this situation. I don't like people distracting from the realities that are facing us right now. 1,960 people live in the town in CT that this happened, and all of them are hurting. The entire population of America is in mourning. Quit pointing fingers. Quit trying to make a political policy right now. Praise the people that got the children out of the school alive. Praise the principal that had the state of mind to turn on the loudspeaker so the whole school could hear what was going on and prepare for the gunman. Praise the teachers that followed their training and took care of the children in their classroom, and wandering the halls, and followed procedures. Pray for the families that lost loved ones.

Sarah age 7

If you have an agenda don't use this time to nail the coffins of the children with insensitive thinking. The mother was killed with her own guns. DAMN IT!!
Today I taught my class of future teachers and I wanted to tell them about drills in schools. When teachers know there is a gunman on campus they are taught to first lock the classroom door, we have to do it from the outside since their isn't a lock on the inside of most classroom doors. Then take the desks and put them on their side and barricade the students in a corner, where they can't be seen from any window. Then wait for either a call on the class phone or a knock on the door. When that happens the person on the phone or at the door will say a number, and the teacher responds with another number that the two numbers add up to 10 (some schools change the number it adds up to). Then the student are escorted out of the school, with their hands up, or in this case on the shoulders of the student in front of them, and walk out of the building. We aren't supposed to let students wear coats in case something is hidden under a coat, like a gun. This school was a model school and people should learn how they did things because their did it good!