One teacher climbed out a window to escape the gunman. Another is still nursing bullet wounds. Many of them have since been told they’d find it too disturbing to even go back inside to fetch their belongings.
But after surviving the horrific mass shooting in May that killed 21 people and injured 17 more, teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas now find themselves in another unenviable—but all too common—position: asking for donations simply to buy necessary supplies for the upcoming academic year.
“I am the STEM teacher for Robb Elementary school,” one educator’s Amazon Wish List reads. “...This year, because of the tragedy in my building, I was displaced. I at the moment, do not have my class materials, and I still do not know where my class will be at my temporary school. I am creating this list to provide the best learning environment for my kids… Please help me continue giving them the education they deserve.”
