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Old 12-18-2012, 07:50 AM   #496
Spexxvet
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Originally Posted by ZenGum View Post
There is far too much media fascination with the killer.

I'd like to see a lot more media focus on the teachers.

Many of them successfully hid their classes, misled the killer, and were murdered. Unarmed, untrained for this sort of thing, yet died saving the children in their charge. It doesn't get much more heroic than that.
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
The school has around 670 students. 650 of them walked out of the building and were reunited with their families. That's due entirely to the teachers and the heroic office staff and all the times they had practiced lockdowns.

I've always thought the locked school doors and lockdown drills were overkill, but this incident shows I was probably wrong about that.
The teachers and administrators were true heroes. They bravely sacrificed themselves to protect those less able to protect themselves.

I wonder if republicans will reinstate teachers' pay and benefits in light of this. Naw.
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