About 60 of the 330 kids graduating from Newtown High School will also be carrying the emotional burden of knowing that many of their former classmates won't get to walk across the stage with them.
Ella Seaver shares her thoughts on high school graduation with other survivors of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before a rally against gun violence on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Newtown, Conn.
Emma Ehrens was one of 11 children from Classroom 10 to survive the attack. She and other students managed to flee when the gunman paused to reload and another student, Jesse Lewis, yelled for everyone to run. Jesse didn't make it. Five kids and both teachers in the room were killed."I am definitely going be feeling a lot of mixed emotions," said Ehrens, 17."I'm super excited to be, like, done with high school and moving on to the next chapter of my life.
The town provided an array of services to the families. Officials shielded them as much as they could from the media and outsiders, and the students said leaving such a protective community will be both difficult and somewhat freeing. "It definitely feels for me that we're kind of stuck in the same system that we've been stuck in for past 12 years," she said.
They say their fallen classmates have motivated their advocacy, which they all plan to continue after high school.
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