Abigail Zwerner, the Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom, recounts her haunting memories of that day and shares an update on her recovery in an exclusive interview with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie.
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I didn't know it happened on the anniversary of the insurrection.
Parents and school need to be charged. Disgusting how a teacher was treated
Blah blah blah blah, all talk but still have given us a motive of why she was shot
We have a serious cultural problem and students need to be held accountable before they can escalate to this kind of violence. Teachers should not have to face even a fraction of this. It's just so awful. As someone who is earning my certification for teaching, the amount of people asking me why I want to do such a thankless job and warning me that it isn't worth it is staggering. I did a practicum in a classroom where a second grader was allowed to do whatever he wanted as long as he didn't throw chairs like he did in the beginning of the school year and he ruined the class. My parents were worried he might try what the six year old did with this teacher, to me! That's not okay. And students don't get expelled any more when they show these tendencies. It's madness.
I may end up teaching online!
BLACK KID OR WHITE KID ???
I hope the school is held accountable, along with the parents. Blessed to be alive and hope she’ll continue her passion as a teacher
I’m sure the parents/family of the shooter are sitting around saying “he’s a good boy. He never not done nothin’ like this. Here’s our gofundme.”
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Was the kid on meds…. If so that explains his violent behaviour.
What "triggers" a 6 year old child to bring a gun to school and shoot his teacher???? In every situation, it takes all involved playing a part or being responsible for a part of what happened. I have many questions.
Republicans still don’t want to reform our gun laws, that is the issue. If they gun “isn’t” the source of our problems, they are.
on January 6th?….🕵
Hope that kid is in juvi, he probably is in juvi this is not acceptable
Another day in the USA
I hope his parents are imprisoned for allowing their child to have access to their gun.
Video is out of sync with audio. How did a 6 year old get a gun? There's more to this story that's not being told.
As a teacher, it’s so sad to hear this story. Teachers go through sooooo much, it’s one of the worsts jobs if you have bad students. God bless all the teachers out there!
Happy she survived
God bless❤
I went to a country school this kid in elementary school brought a rifle in the bus
On the way home he told me.he was going to shoot me. I knew my mother wasn't home and he had a straight shot. I went with my friend to her house. This kid had no friends bad skin braggert
I told my friendsother what he said and she said oh he's just shooting his mouth. I looked at her like she was nuts.
There had been no school.shootimg at that time.
In 1960
In China They Execute Anyone who does this. Age Does Not Matter
It's just crazy what's happening in USA due to guns being so accessible…
If the 6 year old shooter had shot his classmates or even killed them
What would the law have done ?
She is beautiful. Facing a gun and she’s more worried about getting her “babies” out of there. Which she still did after being shot with a collapsed lung! There should be charges when a 6yr old has access to a gun and takes it to school then shoots his teacher! It sounds like the parents are aware the child already has issues so you’d think there would be no guns in the home or at the very least locked away from a 6 yr old. I hope this lovely lady will be ok ❤️
I'm guessing the little gunman is a black boy???
A 5 year old BLACK KID did this. SHe is white…But race had NOTHINg to do with it? Yeh, right
That kid's parents need to be held accountable!
If the public would know what happens in elementary schools, the dangerous children and parents we deal with, the lack of support, they'd be dumbfounded.
How do you not immediately stop the press ! A first grader has a gun ! Three warnings and everyone went along their day like it’s routine ?! I must be missing a lot of the story. And no criminal charges ??!! Parents should be charge for not keeping the gun on lockdown. The school should of went into lockdown immediately and the child isolated and gun removed. This is insane !
Hmmm. The gun culture and the availability of guns in the USA is contributing factor in this case as it is in shooting incidents across the nation.
The adult in the room should have taken away the kids bag herself if she was sure there was a gun. It was her or theother kids in the firing line so why wait for permission from the management dowm the hall out the firing line. Duh.