I'm a high school teacher. Taking a bullet for my students isn't written in my contract.

"When I started as a teacher, dying for my students was not written in the contract. It wasn't what I signed up for."

"We had entered a 'soft' lockdown, with the door simply closed... Why hadn't we gone into a 'hard' lockdown? It made me uneasy about what would happen in case of a real emergency."

"I try not to think about school shootings... Teachers have to focus on their students and their learning, not on what could go wrong."

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