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Filled with fear a school shooter was about to take his life, 12-year-old Ajani Dartiguenave wrote a heartbreaking goodbye letter to his family.
"Right now I am scared to death," he wrote. "I need a warm, soft hug."
"Mom, I hope that you're going to be OK with me gone," he wrote. "Goodbye."
Dartiguenave wrote the note during a frightening one-hour lock down at his Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary school last Friday after officials received an anonymous threat.
"I was very scared," Ajani said. "I thought that many of my friends would die friends."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/12-year-old-boy-writes-goodbye-letter-to-his-family-during-school-lockdown/ar-BBPN9EZ?li=BBnb7Kz
sueh
(1,826 posts)badhair77
(4,220 posts)I never considered such a thing when I was a student. As a teacher it definitely existed, even tho we did shooter drills and took classes on how to approach a possible shooter. We were actually instructed to approach from our side because a bullet might hit fewer organs than confronting head on and to throw something noisy like a steel garbage can lid because the noise might distract the shooter.
These kids are going to need a lot of help.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)have done to the children.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)All of these children must be traumatized thinking that this could be a possibility for them at any time. Poor little boy.
How I despise these gun-humpers and their sick fetish!
Golden Raisin
(4,612 posts)up crouching under my (wooden!) school desk to escape nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union.