Hero teacher Kaitlin Roig, Heroic teachers did whatever they could to protect students as suspected gunman Adam Lanza stormed Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 students and six adults.
In an interview with ABC News, third grade teacher Kaitlin Roig described how she barricaded all 14 of her students into a bathroom connected to her classroom.
She tearfully recounted her actions during the attack, “I put one of my students on top of the toilet … I just knew we had to get in there. I was telling them ‘It’s going to be OK, you’re going to be alright.’
I had pulled a bookshelf, before I closed a door, in front of it, so we were completely barricaded in.”She told students that they had to remain absolutely quiet fearing that the gunman may hear them and begin shooting the bathroom door. She told students, “There are bad guys out there now, we need to wait for the good guys.”
In an interview with ABC News, third grade teacher Kaitlin Roig described how she barricaded all 14 of her students into a bathroom connected to her classroom.
She tearfully recounted her actions during the attack, “I put one of my students on top of the toilet … I just knew we had to get in there. I was telling them ‘It’s going to be OK, you’re going to be alright.’
I had pulled a bookshelf, before I closed a door, in front of it, so we were completely barricaded in.”She told students that they had to remain absolutely quiet fearing that the gunman may hear them and begin shooting the bathroom door. She told students, “There are bad guys out there now, we need to wait for the good guys.”
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