Two local teachers are headed to the “March for Our Lives” in D.C. Collette Collins and Christy Johnson work in Commerce City.
They say being in D.C. with the Parkland students who survived the shooting and representing our state, which is no stranger to gun violence, are the reasons they needed to go.
"Every day I have to work with fifth graders and we have to practice our lockdown drills and they're frightened, and they talk about it," Collins said. “They hear what's going on. I feel their fear because I worry about that when I got to school every day."
“The kids that were gunned down and killed in Florida, they weren't even born when Columbine happened and you know, Columbine was the school that kind of put school violence on the map,” Johnson said. "I still remember the day, when I was driving in my car and I heard about the Columbine shooting and to still think that 20 years later, that it's still an issue.”
The teachers said a lot of kids will be able to vote in the next election and it’s their job as teachers to support them
"The young people are our future and I really believe that they're going to be able to make some big changes," Collins said. “I'm hoping to feel like our presence will make a difference in the future."
"I'm proud to be a teacher and I'm happy to go and give my support in any way that I can,” Johnson said. “If that means walking and holding a poster, just being one other person in that march then that's what I can do."
