"One of My Little Boys Just Kept Saying, ‘I Love You, I Love You, Please Don’t Die with Me.’ I Never..."

“One of my little boys just kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, please don’t die with me.’ I never thought I was going to die. The whole time I just kept screaming to them, ‘Quit worrying, we’re fine, we’re fine.’ And I’m very loud, so I just hoped they could hear me because I could hear them screaming. [One girl] was sobbing, and I was like, ‘We’re going to be fine, we’re going to be fine, I’m protecting you.’ And then I said a few prayers. ‘God please take care of my kids.’” —

RHONDA CROSSWHITE, sixth grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was leveled by a tornado.  She threw herself over students inside a bathroom stall as the storm passed, likely helping to save their lives.

Teachers.  Among the best of us.

(via the New York Post)
Laughing and crying at the same time (it reminds me of something my mother, a retired teacher after 40 years in the trenches, would say). I wish it didn’t take tragedy for so many to acknowledge teachers for the heroes they are, but every day.  Every day.  In Moore, yesterday.  Heroes.

(via breakthecitysky)

 I wish teachers didn’t have to keep proving their heroics in fatal situations this year.

(Source: inothernews, via breakthecitysky)