Daily News | Students whose school year was disrupted by gun violence say ‘this is not normal’
And most recently, just three weeks before summer break, Roxborough students lost another friend whenThe losses shaped the year in ways large and small — from students struggling to concentrate in class to teachers bracing themselves as they read news of another teen shot, fearful that it might again be one of their students.Nick and Randy’s classmates struggled to put into words the pain of losing friends and classmates so violently.
“Yes we had tragic moments,” she said. “But our school is very loving and nurturing. It’s a school with good opportunities, but the good things get covered up.” “This space does not belong to his killers. This space does not belong to violence,” said Meredith Elizalde, Nick’s mom. “It belongs to us. It belongs to his memory. It belongs to the students who have to pass it everyday in an unsafe city just to get to school.“Our school has been under an extreme amount of stress,” said Rusty Thurlow, a math and special education teacher at Roxborough. “We’re really still coming out of the pandemic, and now we have these tragedies.
As of Monday, 179 Philadelphia district and charter school students had been shot, and 29 had been killed this academic year. Among those who died: Devin Weedon, 15, shot during a robbery on his way to school; Jaseem Thomas, 16, a junior at Philadelphia Learning Academy South, walking to catch the trolley; and“People act like we’re just kids, that this is an adult topic, but it’s not,” said Isis Feristin, a junior at Saul. “We see it every day on social media, so it’s more of a worry for us.
Several students, including Feristin, said they want to see greater mental health support in their schools. Two days of counseling after a tragedy is not enough, they said.
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