- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
An Indian-American teacher has been praised for her quick thinking that helped save a number of lives during the Florida school shooting on February 14 that claimed 17 lives. Shanthi Viswanathan, a Mathematics teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, locked the doors of her classroom immediately after the alarm inside the school rang for the second time that day. She kept the windows closed and made her students crouch on the floor. “She was quick on her feet and used her knowledge. She saved a lot of kids,” Dawn Jarboe, mother of one of Viswanathan’s students, told…
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