Florida students say hero teacher was really a 'coward' who left them to die

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-students-say-hero-teacher-was-really-a-coward-who-left-them-to-die/ar-BBJRqgr?ocid=spartandhp

by John Bacon
March 5, 2018

Math teacher Jim Gard was credited with protecting students in his classroom in the horrifying moments of Feb. 14 after a teen gunman unleashed a fusillade of bullets at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

In recent days, however, students Josh Gallagher and Connor Dietrich have expressed contempt at Gard on Twitter. Josh said Gard "called himself a hero, and ... the media portrayed him as a hero when in reality he is the opposite."

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[jmyrlefuller]

Now we see the backstabbing begin.

[mountaineer]

There are 500 sides to every story, it seems.

[goatprairie]

I wasn't there.
The teacher has the door blocked.....there's shooting going on. He opens the door to let in a few kids and maybe the shooter gets into the room too and guns down more kids.
He might have made the best of several bad choices available to him. Who knows? 

[thackney]

I wasn't there.
The teacher has the door blocked.....there's shooting going on. He opens the door to let in a few kids and maybe the shooter gets into the room too and guns down more kids.
He might have made the best of several bad choices available to him. Who knows? 

My daughter is student teaching at a large high school.

A kid brought a gun school.  Someone reported him, police called, school went on lock-down.

At least one teacher, after initially securing the room, continued to let students in, including kids not in her class.

Turns out she let in the kid they were hunting for.  He hid with the other students in her room.  The student's name was not given out.  After hours of lock-down, the police eventually figured out where he was.