Kaitlin roig debellis biography
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Kaitlin M. Roig-DeBellis is the Founder & Executive Director of Classes 4 Classes, Inc., a (c)3 organization..
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, the Sandy Hook first-grade teacher who heroically saved the lives of her 15 small charges, reveals the trauma of the day evil stormed her school in the intensely moving new book, “Choosing Hope.”
It’s an account that will resonate with the survivors of the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that left nine dead this week.
“I was crammed into a bathroom stall with my terror-struck first-graders — boys and girls, most of whom had yet to even learn to tie their shoes — mourning the future we would never have and listening in horror as the teachers and first-graders on the other side of the wall were being massacred, the whole time thinking we were next.”
Roig-DeBellis, writing with Robin Gaby Fisher, says it was the initial blast of gunfire that alerted her the elementary school was under siege.
It was Dec. 14, 2012, and 20-year-old Adam Lanza was about to slaughter 20 children and six adults before shoot