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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
Tue May 21, 2013, 07:02 PM May 2013

Teachers were heroic protectors

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There are multiple stories coming out of Moore, Okla., of teachers putting their own lives on the line to protect their students, just as teachers in Newtown and other schools risked and sometimes lost their lives for students.

During the worst of the tornado that destroyed Moore, teachers shielded children with their own bodies even as roofs collapsed around them, according to educators and parents of children who survived.

David Wheeler's son Gabriel, 8, is in third grade at Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, one of two schools destroyed. Students were initially told to huddle in the hallways, but Gabriel's teacher, Julie Simon, said it wasn't safe and ushered them to a closet.

Simon shielded Gabriel with her arms and held him down as the building's roof collapsed, Wheeler said. The tornado's force was so strong it sucked the glasses off the faces of some students. Gabriel suffered cuts and bruises and had gravel embedded in his head — but was otherwise unscathed, his father said.

more . . . http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/21/teachers-as-heroic-protectors/2346631/
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Teachers were heroic protectors (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan May 2013 OP
Rec by this spouse of an NEA thug mcar May 2013 #1
My hope is that all those who think teachers are the problem BrotherIvan May 2013 #2
Thank you! n/t TruthTeller May 2013 #4
Again. Dr. Strange May 2013 #3
My mom is a teacher... blur256 May 2013 #5
The people who care about and for the nations children. MichiganVote May 2013 #6
So one more thing. Do you think this teacher is highly qualified? MichiganVote May 2013 #7
I'd guess not. proud2BlibKansan May 2013 #9
Another great photo of teachers: pinboy3niner May 2013 #8
k&r Starry Messenger May 2013 #10

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
2. My hope is that all those who think teachers are the problem
Tue May 21, 2013, 07:41 PM
May 2013

Will see these pictures and something will click. My mother was a teacher for 41 years. And long after she retired, she was tutoring ex-students and neighbors to help them through high school and college. No charge, she did it because she loved it. Teachers have some of the toughest jobs and deserve all the credit. On the whole, they are some of the best people your child will come into contact with. And they will put their lives on the line to protect your kids. Why on earth don't we respect them?

blur256

(979 posts)
5. My mom is a teacher...
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:03 PM
May 2013

and I know she would have done the same thing. She is a librarian at a small school near Springfield, MO. Her and a group of librarians she works with went and helped clean up at Joplin when that happened. Teachers are good people.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
8. Another great photo of teachers:
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:43 PM
May 2013


Teachers carry children away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013. (Paul Hellstern/The Oklahoman/AP Photo)

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