The Shadow
Carol Bauer, President of the Virginia Education Association, issued the following statement today following the shooting yesterday at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia:
“This is the first time as VEA President that I’ve had to speak out about the horrors of a school shooting, but I’ve seen many similar statements in my three decades in our schools. When will we be able to stop having to say the same things? Every student needs and deserves the opportunity to go to school without having to fear guns and violence in their classrooms and buildings. Instead, we seem to have just become accustomed to shootings in schools. What happened at Apalachee High School in Georgia yesterday simply can’t be just another episode in our country’s tragic and terrible history of such events. The loss of both high school students and professional educators is just too hard to take.
“The educators I know would like us to take our grief and turn it into an all-out effort to put a stop to horrors like yesterday’s in Winder. Let’s raise our voices enough to make our legislators pass some common-sense gun safety laws. Maybe then we’ll be able to stop issuing these kind of statements.”
