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Mass shootings trigger St. Peter March for Our Lives protest

6/13/2022

 
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In the wake of the mass shooting that claimed 21 lives at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, St. Peter High School teacher Peggy Dimock felt incapable of ensuring her English classroom was a safe space for learning.

“If [students] don’t feel safe, they can’t learn Hamlet,” Dimock said to a crowd of 30 like-minded gun control activists in the Gault Park Pavilion in St. Peter Saturday. “Teachers today cannot provide the safety rung. We can’t say, ‘If you’re in my class, you won’t be shot.’”

​The high school teacher was one of several speakers to push for heightened gun control measures at the March for Our Lives protest.In the wake of the mass shooting that claimed 21 lives at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, St. Peter High School teacher Peggy Dimock felt incapable of ensuring her English classroom was a safe space for learning.

“If [students] don’t feel safe, they can’t learn Hamlet,” Dimock said to a crowd of 30 like-minded gun control activists in the Gault Park Pavilion in St. Peter Saturday. “Teachers today cannot provide the safety rung. We can’t say, ‘If you’re in my class, you won’t be shot.’”

​The high school teacher was one of several speakers to push for heightened gun control measures at the March for Our Lives protest.

Read the St. Peter Herald Story

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