NOT GUILTY
Posted on 05/22/2013 9:34:06 AM PDT by jimbo123
A heroic teacher who shielded her students from Oklahoma’s monster tornado is recovering in the hospital after the metal leg of a desk speared her in the calf.
Suzanne Haley says she’s grateful to be alive, and that the incredible injury she sustained isn’t life-threatening.
“It didn’t hit the bone. It just went through the muscle,” she told Fox affiliate KOKH-TV from her hospital bed Tuesday.
Haley, a paraprofessional at Briarwood Elementary School in suburban Oklahoma City, said she and another teacher immediately rushed the children under desks and into the corner of the classroom as the twister bore down Monday.
It was the last day of school, and the dozen students in her first-grade special education class were eager to start their summer vacations. Also inside the classroom were Haley’s two young daughters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Impalement by flying objects is a huge risk during tornadoes. The winds are so powerful that there have been cases of a stalk of straw driven through a telephone pole.
One grotesque photo from this tornado shows a dead horse, impaled by a large “piece of metal”.
Well, see here..just goes to show you, having armed teachers in schools would have done no good whatsoever..
NOT GUILTY
Merely a flesh wound...
>>Well, see here..just goes to show you, having armed teachers in schools would have done no good whatsoever<<
Ahead of the MSM news curve, I see...
To the OP: this lady is admirable! I am glad to see it is a relatively minor wound (but *OUCH*).
I'm sure the NEA and local atheists will have something to say about both acts.
Me? She a hero! On both selfless acts
The children and the teachers.I am touched.
thats why they say go underground
One teacher being interviewed said she hovered over several kids in a restroom stall ... and she prayed out loud.
[IIRC, that was on NBC Nightly News.]
She and the kids with her survived with only minor scrapes and scratches.
However, I must ask ... what is a teaching paraprofessional?
... a paraprofessional at Briarwood Elementary School ...
Admirable lady!
However, I must ask ... what is a teaching paraprofessional?
... a paraprofessional at Briarwood Elementary School ...
Special Education Aide, my daughter with Autism had one in her school days.
‘One teacher being interviewed said she hovered over several kids in a restroom stall ... and she prayed out loud.’
She’ll soon be audited by the IRS for praying in a school.
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