One of My Students Was Killed Just Days Before The Year Began. Here’s How I, and My School, Found a Way Forward.

Rocketship Spark Academy Principal Danny Etcheverry writes, “My first day of school this year started in a distressing new way: with a moment of silence.

Este es mi decimosexto año como educador, mi décimo año como líder escolar y mi tercer año como padre de escuela pública. Pensé que tenía la rutina de inicio de curso dominada.

But this first day of school changed me forever. I am the principal of Rocketship Spark Academy in San Jose. Six-year-old Stephen Romero, a rising first-grade student, was gunned down in Gilroy, California, on July 28, 2019. School started just two weeks later.”

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