From the NY Post: More than two weeks after the high-school shooting massacre in Parkland, Fla., anger and second-guessing continue to simmer there, with one student tweeting his teacher was a “coward” — triggering an online war of words.
Math teacher Jim Gard left “75% of his students out in the hallway to be slaughtered,” juniorJosh Gallagher claimed on Twitter on Feb. 28.
None of Gard’s students would die in the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS, which left 14 students and three faculty slain.
Still, the teacher didn’t unlock the math-class door when his terrified students banged on it from the hallway, even as shots rang out, Gallagher tweeted.
The left-out kids cowered in the hallway “for four total minutes ducking and in fear for our lives,” before a different teacher let them inside another classroom, Gallagher tweeted.
“Omg. I’m so sorry to hear another shameful act of cowardice,” wrote We R Kate Steinle at @No1islistening0.
“Jim Gard must live with what he did,” responded Janeka Smith at @JanekaSmith1.
This story that the press ran and the little punks writing on Twitter really passes me off.
The teacher didn’t exactly what he was supposed to do.
As a former school teacher, I have through my fair share trainings and active shooting drills.
AND THE FIRST AND ONLY THING THEY TELL YOU IS IF THERE IS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER, YOU CLOSE YOUR CLASSROOM DOOR, LOCK THE DOOR AND YOU DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR NO MATTER WHAT THE REASON UNTIL THERE IS AN ALL CLEAR.
The teacher also moved his students away from the door and kept them quiet in a terrible situation, which is what he is supposed to do.
That school district and the local, state and national teachers better defend this teacher for doing his job correctly in an impossible situation.
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