NEW YORK — Teachers are speaking out days after a 6-year-old allegedly shot a teacher at a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school.
Trayvon Thompson teaches kindergarten at a public school in Los Angeles County. The 22-year-old is in his first year of teaching and he said when he first heard about the shooting, which reportedly took place last Friday, he was"shocked" and immediately had questions.
Of his post, Thompson told"GMA,""I did mention the fact that if a school shooting were to happen in a school I worked at, that I would deeply consider quitting. I don't really blame anyone if they would quit because of [a] school shooting or would say, 'You know what, let me not be a teacher due to it.'"
"This is something that teachers should never ever have to even worry about happening coming into school, just the same as students should never have to worry about being harmed in school either," Palermo, 30, said. "As a teacher, my number one concern always is keeping my students safe and that comes before anything else to me, like academics, anything. So watching the way things have been going down in our country, it is a thought that I have going into work every single day," Palermo said."I've started carrying pepper spray with me," he said.
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