@katherinecopeland0: On December 14, 2012, Kaitlin Roig was leading her first-grade class at Sandy Hook Elementary School when she heard gunfire. She had fifteen students, all six or seven years old, and almost nowhere to hide. The classroom bathroom was approximately three feet by four feet, designed for one small child. Kaitlin began getting her students inside anyway. She lifted children onto the toilet and arranged them wherever there was room, then moved a storage unit in front of the entrance and locked the door. Sixteen people were packed into that tiny space. Outside, the shooting continued. The children could hear it. Some whispered that they wanted their mothers. One child wanted to know if they could fight the bad man. Kaitlin told them they needed to stay quiet and wait for the good people who would come to help. She tried to keep them calm even as she believed none of them would survive. Then she told the children she loved them. Kaitlin later explained why. She thought those might be the last words her students would ever hear, and she wanted them to hear love rather than only the violence outside. They remained hidden for approximately 45 minutes. When someone finally knocked, Kaitlin was terrified that it might be the gunman pretending to be a rescuer. She hesitated before opening the door. Police eventually brought all sixteen to safety. Every child in her bathroom survived. Elsewhere in Sandy Hook, twenty first-graders and six educators were killed. Surviving did not mean that life simply returned to normal. Kaitlin later described the lasting trauma and her struggle to obtain the support she believed her students needed. She took a leave of absence and eventually resigned from teaching. She went on to establish Classes 4 Classes, a nonprofit encouraging students to help other classrooms. She also wrote a memoir about the attack and its aftermath. For years, people have called Kaitlin a hero. But one detail from that morning remains especially difficult to forget: while she was trying to save fifteen children, she also thought about what they would hear if she couldn’t. #sandyhook #children #students #teacher #hero

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