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Speaking of locked doors, I thought I'd repost this. I had posted this in one of the earlier threads before it was locked.
There were a few reports of teachers being unable to lock their doors or the doors just not locking:
Ms. Rousseau - according to her father - did not have a key to lock her door.
Gilles Rousseau said he raised the question after a contact with the school district, whom he did not identify, told him that Lauren Rousseau would not have had a key to lock the first-grade room where she was teaching Friday. As a permanent substitute, she was assigned to different classes from day to day.
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This article says that 4th grade teacher Mr. Varga could not lock a door: "Once the shooting began, Mr Varga tried to lock the door to the conference room. When he found out the door would not lock..."
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Library clerk Mary Ann Jacob could not lock her door.
"I shouted 'Lockdown!' and I ran across the hall and told the other class it was a lockdown," Jacob said.
She dashed back to her classroom and discovered that the door would not lock. Spying the storage closet in the room, Jacob and the rest of the library staff guided the children in a group-crawl to safety as the gunfire continued.
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Another article includes some more info on how the doors were locked: Another teacher, Abbey Clements, acted quickly to save lives. When she heard gunshots outside her classroom she initially thought they might be folding chairs, left out for a concert, falling over. But when she looked outside she was confronted with a very different scene. "When I poked my head out the door and saw the custodian [janitor] running to the front of the building I realised they were shots," she said. She pulled two students and two other teachers who were standing in the hall through her door to hide them. "We corralled those two kids into my classroom to stay with me. We went into lockdown, which meant that I ran to get the keys and told the kids to sit in the place where we practised for emergencies.
"It was even scary to lock the door because I had to open the door back up and put my hand out – because the lock is on the outside – and then come back into the closet area," Ms Clements added. Trying to calm the children, she attempted to muffle the haunting sounds of gunshots and screams broadcasting over the intercom and read them stories.
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And one more:
Shari Burton, a Sandy Hook teacher's assistant, who called 911 just moments after hearing those first horrifying shots.
BURTON: I called 911, and they said that they had some calls come through already, and they asked me to describe what I was hearing. And at that time, all I was hearing was, Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And it wasn't stopping. And he said, Do you think it's gunshots? And I said, I think it's gunshots.
At that time, I did not realize that our teacher could not lock our door, but she had saw the custodian. She said, Our door won't lock, and he shooed her into our room and she closed the door. And he came back. He stayed in the hallway and he locked our doors.
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I wonder if Victoria Soto was able to lock her door? She should have had enough time since AL was in Lauren Rousseau's class prior to hers. I think if anything the inability to lock the doors might come in to play if Lauren Rousseau's family or the families of her class decided to sue.
There were a few reports of teachers being unable to lock their doors or the doors just not locking:
Ms. Rousseau - according to her father - did not have a key to lock her door.
Gilles Rousseau said he raised the question after a contact with the school district, whom he did not identify, told him that Lauren Rousseau would not have had a key to lock the first-grade room where she was teaching Friday. As a permanent substitute, she was assigned to different classes from day to day.
...
This article says that 4th grade teacher Mr. Varga could not lock a door: "Once the shooting began, Mr Varga tried to lock the door to the conference room. When he found out the door would not lock..."
....
Library clerk Mary Ann Jacob could not lock her door.
"I shouted 'Lockdown!' and I ran across the hall and told the other class it was a lockdown," Jacob said.
She dashed back to her classroom and discovered that the door would not lock. Spying the storage closet in the room, Jacob and the rest of the library staff guided the children in a group-crawl to safety as the gunfire continued.
...
Another article includes some more info on how the doors were locked: Another teacher, Abbey Clements, acted quickly to save lives. When she heard gunshots outside her classroom she initially thought they might be folding chairs, left out for a concert, falling over. But when she looked outside she was confronted with a very different scene. "When I poked my head out the door and saw the custodian [janitor] running to the front of the building I realised they were shots," she said. She pulled two students and two other teachers who were standing in the hall through her door to hide them. "We corralled those two kids into my classroom to stay with me. We went into lockdown, which meant that I ran to get the keys and told the kids to sit in the place where we practised for emergencies.
"It was even scary to lock the door because I had to open the door back up and put my hand out – because the lock is on the outside – and then come back into the closet area," Ms Clements added. Trying to calm the children, she attempted to muffle the haunting sounds of gunshots and screams broadcasting over the intercom and read them stories.
...
And one more:
Shari Burton, a Sandy Hook teacher's assistant, who called 911 just moments after hearing those first horrifying shots.
BURTON: I called 911, and they said that they had some calls come through already, and they asked me to describe what I was hearing. And at that time, all I was hearing was, Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And it wasn't stopping. And he said, Do you think it's gunshots? And I said, I think it's gunshots.
At that time, I did not realize that our teacher could not lock our door, but she had saw the custodian. She said, Our door won't lock, and he shooed her into our room and she closed the door. And he came back. He stayed in the hallway and he locked our doors.
...
I wonder if Victoria Soto was able to lock her door? She should have had enough time since AL was in Lauren Rousseau's class prior to hers. I think if anything the inability to lock the doors might come in to play if Lauren Rousseau's family or the families of her class decided to sue.
