Rebecca Recco, an art educator in Charleston, West Virginia, recently walked through a new school and into one of the most beautiful and light-filled classrooms she’d ever seen.
Her first thought was the room had nowhere to hide the children
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Recco often has these kinds of thoughts. When she walks into a building, her mind fixates on how to get out in case she’s confronted by a gunman, even though she’s never been in such a situation. She’s always looking for small spaces to hide her elementary school students
Recco isn’t sure whether her mind works this way because she’s trained to usher kids into hiding if a shooter walks into school, or if watching the aftermath of mass shootings on TV again and again has embedded such thoughts in her brain. Maybe it’s both …
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