Colin Donohue, 35, rejoined the Clark County School District as a literacy specialist last week — two months after returning home from a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq.
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The words “Vegas Strong” are possibly the most meaningful on the arm sling worn by Karessa Royce, a survivor of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip.
Desert Oasis High School senior Jake Schmidt didn’t plan on writing about what he did on Oct. 1. But in the days after escaping gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival, the essay was the only assignment he could sit down and do that week.
Students at Green Valley High School have raised roughly $60,000 for the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund by selling Vegas Strong T-shirts to schools across the Clark County School District.
Students and staff at Mesquite Middle School have raised over $4,500 to help the families of three victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting who worked in education.
After Sunday’s shooting on the Strip, up to 200 school psychologists, nurses, counselors and social workers responded to a request for assistance from local authorities. For some, the experience was “very raw … very emotional.”
Students in Clark County are like adults when it comes to Sunday’s horrible bloodbath in Las Vegas: They’re grappling with questions that may have no answers.
Clark County School District cancels after-school sports and activities, makes counselors available at all campuses.
UNLV students expressed widespread disappointment on social media Monday after learning that the campus would be open and classes would be in session following the deadliest mass shooting in history.
“It’s just been a rough year,” Principal Travis Warnick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday. “Thankfully we’re a pretty tightknit family, and we’ve leaned on each other to get through.”