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In reply to the discussion: What?! A parent DID make it inside Robb Elementary after having been briefly HANDCUFFED [View all]slightlv
(2,785 posts)terrorize the children for nothing, it sounds like, with these drills... cause the adults sure don't learn anything from them. I read the teachers gathered as many kids behind them and sacrificed themselves.
All these school shootings are heart rending. This one I just can't get over, tho... why? Why is this one hitting me so much harder? Is it because I used to live in TX when it was blue and I loved it back then? Is it just because it's the proverbial "one step farther" than I can stand with everything else going on? I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Kudos to the mother who got her kids out. I'd have been that mother; nothing would have stopped me from getting Susie out of that situation. But, being a mother, and knowing I'd have left a classroom of kids behind while rescuing my own, I don't know how I'd live with that for the rest of my life. I fear for that mother's mental health. I hope she gets help. I know she's relieved to have her kids with her and alive; but deep within her, I fear she's got a lot festering that's gotta come out, too. I hope she gets some professional help to talk it out.