For educators like myself, no matter how far we teach from Uvalde, Texas, the recent mass shooting at Robb Elementary, like so many before it, is still palpable in our classrooms — among students and teachers alike.

Two days after the massacre, Toni Wright, one of my students in New Haven, Conn., stood in our high school’s hallway crying. “I couldn’t even make it to school yesterday,” they told me. “I got on the bus, I made it down the street, but I had to get off and tell my mom to come get me. I was so upset that it was physically hurting me to try to go to school.”

Toni’s peers might have felt this way too, but many students did not want to talk about the shooting. As Toni explained, “I don’t think anyone knows how to talk about it without being like: ‘it’s so sad, it happened again.’”

The massacre at Robb Elementary is the 51st school shooting of this academic year, according to Education Week. This database suggests that 2021 – 2022 has seen more school shootings than any previous recorded year in U.S. histor

The post In the Wake of Uvalde, a Teacher’s Plea for Police-Free Schools appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

This post was originally published on PopularResistance.Org.