Sorrow : "That I shall go with you a way ! " To Robb Elementary School

 

Robb Elementary School, Texas

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(...)

And we can tell, but Heaven, at last

May answer all my thousand prayers

And bid the future pay the past

With joy for anguish, smiles for tears.

Anne Brontë, Farewell

Buffalo, New York. Laguna Woods, California. Uvalde, Texas. In little more than a week, three more places have been added to a uniquely American geography of terror and grief.

Remembering Columbine High School shooting 20 years

credits: unknown

via MamaMia

The shooting at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado, 20 April 1999, 12 students and one teacher deadly shot, was considered at the time the most important tragedy in the United States.  

April 20, 1999 was a sunny day in the quiet suburb of Littleton, Colorado. It was three days after prom, and the students at Columbine High School were shaking off the revelry and eager to wind down their last few weeks of school before summer.

Young survivors remembering 20 yeas later

credits: Corbis via Getty Images

"It's never goes back to normal." Twenty years on, scarred young survivors described de day their high school turned into a warzone..."

credits: AP

Every year, Columbine celebrates the lives of victims by doing a 'day of service' where students volunteer throughout the community.

Parents of seven-year-old Grace McDonnell, grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary after learning their daughter was one of 20 schoolchildren killed.

credits: Adrees Latif/Reuters

In 14 December 2012, the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut suffered a shooting, near Christmas season, and killed 26 people. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and six were adult staff members. The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting at an Elementary School in U.S. history.

Christmas in Sandy Hook was different than Christmas just about anywhere else in 2012. It wasn’t a celebration of family, joy and gifts but a solemn day of remembrance.

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We thought, naively, that things could change after Sandy Hook Elementary School, on December 14th, 2012, with the mass murder of literally 20 young children, and 6 teachers, could impact even the coldest.

Mourners embrace near memorials by the Sandy Hook firehouse in Newtown, Connecticut 

credits: Craig Ruttle/The Associated Press

Despite the tears, heartbreak, fear, anger, and demand for change from large chunks of the American population. No changes at all.

Memorial at Robb Elementary Schools

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Some days ago, ten years after Sandy Hook Elementary School, the 24 May 2022, another massacre at Robb Elementary School. 19 kids (8-11 years-old) and 2 teachers were shot dead in their classrooms, having their lessons. One day before the Summer holidays. No!!

 

A child prays at memorial site for the victims killed in this week's shooting

 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

credits: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP

The sadness and anger are crushing all over U.S. and abroad. I'm a teacher, a mother. I'm shocked! My heart is broken. Not again!!

I have no words, I am devastated, absolutely devastated. I have no words. But I feel angry.

"I'm Angry and Sad and Scared and I Know Nothing is Going to Change!"

Anonymous 

G-Souto

28.05.2022

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💜Note: 

As a teacher, I believe parents, families, classmates, teachers of Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, must keep their privacy.

As a pedagogue and a mother, I believe in values. So I decided not to publish the photos of the students shot dead at the three schools: Columbine Elementary School, Sandy Hook Elementary School and now Robb Elementary School for respect to their privacy and their parents. They are just kids.

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Bright Holiday Season, Shine Bright... Hillcrest Primary School : Sorrow

 

via TIF News

"Shine bright like a diamond. 

You're a shooting star I see"

As we end the trimester, moving through winter solstice toward the returning light, may the Holiday Spirit of the educational community help ease December’s chill.

I stand in sorrow & sympathy with the Hillcrest Primary School community. My heart and thoughts are with the families of those children who lost their lives on last 15 December or are still in hospital. 

What started as a joyful day of celebration ended with the entire Tasmanian community stunned & heartbroken.

credits: Twitter/NickMcCallum7

The deaths of six children after a jumping castle was lifted into the air from strong winds at a school end-of-year celebration as condolences flowed into the grieving small coastal city.

The sixth student has died last 19 December, after Hillcrest Primary School's end of year celebration event.

Four boys and two girls aged between 11 and 12 died in the accident which saw children fall 10 metres (33 feet) to the ground at a school in Devonport in the northwest of the island state of Tasmania. 

It was one of Australia's deadliest accidents involving an amusement ride.

credits: EPA

As a teacher, I believe that children, parents, teachers and families of Hillcrest Primary School must keep their privacy.

I have no words, I was devastated, absolutely devastated, still am. I had no words.

Holiday season is here. Christmas season is children's big dream. What can I say?

Tributes have begun pouring in online for the beloved students who are remembered as a 'beautiful, caring boy' and a 'precious' girl with a 'sweet, kind, old soul'.

credits: NCA Newswire / Grant

Rise of the Guardians, a lovely and original tale, came to my mind. Again. After Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The beautiful 3D animated film would be a sweet tribute in the memories of children.

Rise of the Guardians  also tells us to hold on to that child inside us as we go through life, and to believe in ourselves no matter what.

credits: EPA

The tragedy which occurred is beyond comprehension. It is devastating, heartbreaking. It is just simply incomprehensible.

Addison, 11, Zane, 12, Jye, 12, Jalailah Jayne-Maree, 12, Peter, 12 and Chace, 11.  How sad! Sorrow.

'Young children on a fun day out, together with their families and it turns to such horrific tragedy. At this time of year, it just breaks your heart," 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison

credits: via Facebook

The immediate priority is supporting the children, families and staff who had been impacted.

The tragedy which occurred is beyond comprehension. It is devastating, heartbreaking. It is just simply incomprehensible.

Let's raise our deepest thoughts with sorrow to their parents, families, young classmates and teachers. And let's sing "Shine bright like a diamond."

"It is our job to watch over the children of the world and keep them safe. For as long as they believe in us, we will guard them with our lives." 

North, Rise of the Guardians

Wishing everyone a Bright Holiday Season! Hug each other, hug your children, deeply and often.

G-Souto

24.12.2021

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See you, Prof. Stephen Hawking ! In the stars !

A cartoonist's tribute to Stephen Hawking

 cartoon art by David Hayward

https://nakedpastor.com/2018/

Stephen Hawking died today (March 14), leaving behind a massive legacy of work as an astrophysicist, science communicator, activist, and figure of pop culture admiration."

Rafi Letzter, Space.com

Indeed. As a teacher, I would like to remember the physicist and brighter star Stephen Hawking as one of the most innovative mind, a visionary and creative mind in the field of cosmology. 

It's my tribute to a man who didn't give up, after diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. His courage, persistence and scientific work inspired me as global audiences in the millions. 

Stephen Hawking

@TheScientist_SH

"It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining," 

Hawking, 2005

With his courage, humor, and sapience helped me and all the teachers and practitioners to bring appealing science and humanities into school curriculum.

Curricula became more attractive for students and easier for teachers to enhance skills in-person lessons or distance learning.

‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ 

Stephen Hawking

Oh! Yes, we love teaching, love our students and it will be difficult to be a teacher without passion. 

Prof. Hawking revolutionized completely the concept of science bringing a captivate way to talk about science following the publication of his 1988 popular science book "A Brief History of Time," his most important scientific work was behind him. 

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking, 1988

@TheScientist_SH

"In 1988, I was a recipient of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for publishing my short book."

For teachers and students, "Hawking’s intuition and wicked sense of humor that marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that, coupled with his illness, came to symbolize the unbounded possibilities of the human mind."

Videos, conferences, books and comic books were and are awesome resources to include into school lessons.

Biopic:

And his biopic was a huge success! Students and teachers went to the theaters to watch The Theory of Everything. We loved it!

Based on the 2007 memoir Traveling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen by his first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking. She has written about what it was like to fall in love with and then care for an increasingly disabled and celebrated genius.

The film had a huge impact on students. They loved the film so much and asked to read the book in the classroom. We compared with the film, discussing both.

Activity: 

We developed an interesting cross-curricular project : Languages, Sciences, Music and Multimedia. We were so excited, teachers and students. The project was well succeeded and opened to the entire school staff.

Stephen Hawking

credits: Bryan Bedder/ Getty Images

https://qz.com/

As impressionable young students, it was a tremendous thrill to meet such a celebrity and renowned physicist who entered in their classroom through a speech-generating devices, books, film or TV series as The Simpson or The Big Bang Theory. So captivating to students! An honor to us as teachers to bring wonderful digital resources into our lessons.

As an innovative educator since the 90's, it was a joy to share my dreams and projects with my students: practicing both in-person lessons and hybrid learning (online learning).

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

Stephen Hawking

Hawking's most famous paper, Black Hole Explosions?, published in 1974, 44 years ago, took a hatchet to the whole notion of black holes as physicists had previous understood them. And it was Hawking's first whack at that basic question.

A touching tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking 

by the Telegraph's cartoonist Bob Moran

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/

Teachers are always thinking in captivating the students mind to a better learning and performance. So, they understood immediately how amazing is science by the voice and books of Stephen Hawking. And they did incredible experiences. And grew up to his example of courage and persistence.

We will miss you Prof. Hawking. But we will follow you looking up at the stars.

"Look up at the stars not, not down at your feet."

Stephen Hawking

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15.03.2018

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Tribute & sorrow : Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Fla

Tribute at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

in Parkland, Fla.

credits: Associated Press Reports
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/

There is no fire like greed,
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,

(...)

words of Budha

It was Valentine's Day! A special day for teenagers. It's a festive day at school! Teens and teachers include it into school curriculum.

"It was just a brief 'Happy Valentine's,"

Tyra Hemans, a 19-year-old student

Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

in Parkland, Fla. 

credits: Wilfredo Lee / AP
https://www.theatlantic.com/education//

However at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this afternoon has left 17 teenagers and teachers dead and numerous others injured. They were fatally shot by a 17 years-old ex-student.

How can a 17th teenager be armed? 

He claimed the lives of students with their whole lives ahead of them, along with those of the teachers who tried to protect them.

credits:  Larry Marano/REX/Shutterstock

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/

I don't forget Sandy Hook. I have no words, I am devastated, absolutely devastated every time I read about a new shooting at an American school. I have no words.

The news said that it was the 18th school shooting since the 1st January? Is it possible?

As a teacher, I can feel the sadness and sorrow of the families so as the anger young people and families who lost their friends, schoolmates, teachers and beloved sons.

Students grieving each victim

credits: Gerald Herbert/Associated Press

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/

In the days since the shooting, many students are frustrated at the expectation that nothing will change.

How it's too easy to enter school buildings? - some students and parents are asking, I read. Me too, I asked myself.

Grieving students

credits: Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images

http://ktla.com/2018/

Some are questioning whether adults really understand the pain they are feeling. They are children. They believe in peace and a world without guns.

“There should not be lives lost in schools like this.”

I believe that children, teachers, parents and families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting must keep their privacy. So I don't mentionne names or publish photos of the victims.

 Grieving students, parents and teachers

credits: Giorgio Viera/EPA

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/

Once again, I repeat North's words: 

"It is our job to watch over the children of the world and keep them safe. For as long as they believe in us, we will guard them with our lives." 

North, Rise of the Guardians

It will be so difficult for students and teachers to come back to high school in  a few days!

A student wrote: "RIP and fly with the angels. You will be greatly missed, and we will always love you and celebrate your beautiful life."

May the teens and families take a breath to handle this horrendous sorrow!

G-Souto

17.02.2018
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