Teachers across US question profession, gun laws after Texas school shooting, USA TODAY, May 26, 2022
A Texas school shooting left 19 children and two teachers dead. Teachers feel helpless and scared.
They say the pandemic and culture wars already make the job hard. The return of school shootings makes the job feel unsafe, too.
They worry the next shooting could happen anywhere barring reform around gun laws.
‘Motherhood should be a choice’: Nashville demonstrators rally on Mother’s Day for abortion access, The Tennessean, May 8, 2022
‘I could not have saved them’: Waverly school staff grateful storm hit on a weekend but face difficult road ahead, The Tennessean, Aug. 29, 2021
Schools staff say it would have been “total devastation” had the raging floodwaters hit when students were in class.
‘The system failed’: Nashville homeless advocates call for severe weather plan after flash flooding deaths, The Tennessean, March 30, 2021
They knew there was a chance for flooding as storms dumped more than 7 inches of rain on Nashville over the weekend.
The camp they call “The Jungle” tucked along Sevenmile Creek in southeast Nashville has flooded before, 67-year-old Dan Dyer said.
But they’ve never lost people before, said Dyer, who himself fled the camp as the creek overflowed its banks.
Recovery efforts continue across storm-battered Kentucky and Tennessee as death toll rises, The Tennessean, Dec. 12, 2021
The National Weather Service confirmed at least six tornadoes touched down in Middle Tennessee.
National Guard, tear gas deployed as tensions rise on second day of George Floyd protests, Chattanooga Times Free Press, June 1, 2020
One couple recounts their experience the night the tornado hit in Chattanooga, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 18, 2020
Neyla Locey and her husband, Robert Locey, were just headed to bed a little after 11 p.m. on Easter Sunday.
The television was off, phones silenced. Their adult son was already asleep across the hall. Whether they had lost power at that point yet, they don’t recall – it was bedtime.
They had no idea what was coming.
Meghan Mangrum 