For Lorenzo and all our children

Impassioned, brilliant, determined to not be broken, determined to be heard, I salute these students, our children.

As an educator I ask my self all the questions in this article, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/being-a-teacher-in-the-land-of-the-ar-15?mbid=nl_Daily%20022118&CNDID=24063972&spMailingID=12979357&spUserID=MTQ0Mjk0MTM5MzMyS0&spJobID=1341940746&spReportId=MTM0MTk0MDc0NgS2, wondering if I was not in retirement, but confronted in my old classroom as I taught. What would I do? Once, at dismissal time, in my first year of teaching, I grabbed a child from the path of an approaching bus. The winter wind had whisked the hat from his head and he instinctively darted after it. One child, not a classroom of 20 plus five year olds sprayed with bullets. How can teachers protect their children against automatic weapons?

This must stop.

[diane day]

I am also an educator, recently retired. Everyday I went to work, in the back of my mind was always the thought "Could it be my school today?" I pray their voices are heard

[Tunia McClure]

I have hope that the children will be the ones to make a difference, to force a change.

[Joan Robillard]

Other countries don't have these kind of incidents I hope these kids become the next activists and bring about change that is meaningful.