“I'm just nervous, scared,' said Morales, whose son was a third-grader last year at Robb Elementary and lost three friends in the May 24 massacre.
Ashley Morales is putting her son, Jeremiah, back in class — because she says she has no other choice as a working single mother. She said she would drop him off outside Uvalde Elementary on the first day, as parents weren't allowed inside.and lost three friends in the May 24 massacre. During a recent “Meet the Teacher" night, she felt a rush of anxiety walking down the school hall.
Teachers hugged students climbing out of cars in the drop-off line and guided them toward a line of teachers in turquoise shirts who were waiting for them behind the fence.Although school started weeks ago in many parts of Texas, officials pushed back the first day of class in Uvalde after a summer of unfathomable heartache, anger and revelations of widespread failures by law enforcement who allowed an 18-year-old gunman to fire inside the adjoining classrooms for more than 70 minutes.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has committed to putting nearly three dozen state troopers on Uvalde campuses — but that was of no comfort to some families since there were more than 90 state troopers on scene during the attack. More than 100 families in Uvalde signed up for virtual school, while others pulled their kids out of the district and enrolled them in private schools. One teacher
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