Most students in a Georgia district return to class nearly a week after a school shooting
Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County headed back to class six days after a school shooting killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — Many students in Georgia's Barrow County headed back to class Tuesday, six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district's Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta.
No return date has been set for the 1,900 students at that high school, but the 13,000 students in Barrow County's other schools did return, including at the middle school and elementary school that border the Apalachee campus in Winder.
When her 8-year-old daughter said over the weekend that she was scared to go back to school, Shonderi Williams broke down in her bathroom. She has two daughters Yargo Elementary School and one daughter at Haymon-Morris Middle School, the schools next door. She said she tried to put on a “hero face.”
“I’m trying to teach them, I’m here for you. I’m your protector. There’s nobody that’s going to hurt you, ” Williams told The Associated Press while she waited to pick up her two daughters who attend Yargo. “I can’t be around them 24/7, so I know that’s a lie that I told my child. But I have to go and be that strong parent for them.”
