{"id":547939,"date":"2023-02-04T13:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T10:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/robb-elementary-school-to-be-demolished-uvalde-contends-with-conflicting-emotions\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T13:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T10:59:38","slug":"robb-elementary-school-to-be-demolished-uvalde-contends-with-conflicting-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/robb-elementary-school-to-be-demolished-uvalde-contends-with-conflicting-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Robb Elementary School to be demolished, Uvalde contends with conflicting emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3600145a285\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3600145a285\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/robb-elementary-school-to-be-demolished-uvalde-contends-with-conflicting-emotions\/#Robb_Elementary_School_to_be_demolished_Uvalde_contends_with_conflicting_emotions\" >Robb Elementary School to be demolished, Uvalde contends with conflicting emotions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Robb_Elementary_School_to_be_demolished_Uvalde_contends_with_conflicting_emotions\"><\/span>Robb Elementary School to be demolished, Uvalde contends with conflicting emotions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Jerry Mata, whose 10-year-old daughter Tess was killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting last year, still returns to the campus of Robb Elementary to honor his child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been coming at nighttime, every once in a while,&#8221; Mata told ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>. &#8220;This was her last place, where she took her last breath. I have to come until it&#8217;s demolished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Mata and other victims&#8217; families are waiting for the buildings to be torn down, while the community gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>les with mixed emotions over plans to demolish the school and replace it with a new one elsewhere in Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Robb Elementary is the site of the second-deadliest elementary school shooting in American history, where 1<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZyg UbGl iFzk qdXb WCDh DbOX tqUt \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/story\/victims-texas-school-shooting-uvalde-84948395\">9 children and two teachers were killed<\/a> on May 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Ten days after the massacre, the local school district announced plans to demolish the school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzS QrHM uHkz gdzm  gemG HaxH UWgQ fCex aNZw GWDI PLlC rnLh wQDS LfML eAHW JRAg Cfpj kWAq gmVp mbSG uekX glbr Qjrf HtRU ZUtn NzDP tgdN KvAI nIeZ tGgb dLFt NSTt pvsT EhJP MjyP vPlO daRV ISNQ JHGY sKyC nFwa MCnQ RFDW mEee iulO NIuq zUcB zzsc OjMN eQqc UAzJ SVqK ONJd vrZx TOJy OnRT oMlS gfNz owUz oJhu PePT cabQ yubz \" data-testid=\"prism-Grid-Column\" style=\"--gridSpanXXS:100;--gridSpanXS:100;--gridSpanSM:100;--gridSpanMD:20;--gridSpanLG:14;--gridSpanXL:14;--gridSpanXXL:14;--gridOffsetXXS:0;--gridOffsetXS:0;--gridOffsetSM:0;--gridOffsetMD:0;--gridOffsetLG:0;--gridOffsetXL:0;--gridOffsetXXL:0;--gridContentOffsetXXS:0;--gridContentOffsetXS:0;--gridContentOffsetSM:0;--gridContentOffsetMD:0;--gridContentOffsetLG:0;--gridContentOffsetXL:0;--gridContentOffsetXXL:0\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage RDqG Ibgx eYLn \" data-testid=\"prism-inline-image\">\n<figure class=\"kzIj GNme pYrt dSqF \" data-testid=\"prism-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PHOTO: Crosses set up to honor those who lost their lives during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas on November 8, 2022.\" class=\"hsDd oOra gusu \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/US\/robb-elementary-school-file-gty-jef-230202_1675369794987_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg\"><figcaption>\n<div class=\"XRko PriD tSkS \" data-testid=\"prism-caption\"><span class=\"hsDd IzgM GpQC lZur \" data-testid=\"prism-truncate\"><span><span class=\"ncwc Qmvg nyTI VbLm ystq akor ARhV ygKV yHyq tsIf WHLR lKuK CVfp xijV soGR XgdC aWMf \">Crosses set up to honor those who lost their lives during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas on November 8, 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"YNuj DCmQ  ncwc Qmvg nyTI VbLm ystq akor ARhV ygKV yHyq tsIf WHLR lKuK CVfp xijV soGR XgdC aWMf \">Mark Felix\/AFP \/AFP via Getty Images, FILE<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">It was not a straightforward decision, given both the events of May 24 and the cultural and historical significance Robb Elementary holds in the small community located 60 miles from the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Irene Stone, the director of development at Uvalde&#8217;s El Progreso Library, and whose family helped construct the school back in 1955, said the school&#8217;s past should not be erased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;I&#8217;d love to see all this history that we have researched put in that memorial,&#8221; Stone told ABC News, &#8220;so that we can honor the men like my grandfather and my great uncle and my dad who built the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Robb Elementary played a key role in the fight for equal rights by Chicano and Mexican-American students, who at one point were barred from speaking Spanish within the school&#8217;s walls, according to Stone, in a community where the population has long held steady at 80% Hispanic or Latino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">In the spring of 1970, 650 students staged a walkout after the firing of one of the school&#8217;s only Latino and bilingual instructors. The protest led to a lawsuit that found the district was in violation of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling 16 years prior and resulted in an order to the district to desegregate in 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">That decree was later challenged by the school district in 2007, but an agreement was reached with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a civil rights nonprofit which took up the case, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">District leadership has spent the months since the Robb massacre seemingly at odds with many of the victims&#8217; families, with some parents organizing a two-week sit-in protest at the district office, culminating in the controversial resignation of longtime Schools Superintendent Hal Harrell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Gary Patterson, a career administrator named interim superintendent in Harrell&#8217;s place, said he supports the decision to demolish the school, but acknowledged questions about how to honor Robb&#8217;s legacy are complicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that the history of Robb Elementary or the significance\u2026 have to go away. Because to take the building down, I mean, it&#8217;s more than just the building,&#8221; Patterson told ABC News. &#8220;It&#8217;s the history and the culture. So, what we need to do is find a way as a community to memorialize the history of that area as well as the students who lost their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">When asked about a proposed memorial on school grounds, Patterson said nothing&#8217;s been decided yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not at that point where those decisions are&#8211;the school district&#8217;s not going to rule that out at all. If the district feels and the community feels that&#8217;s the appropriate place, then I think yes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think Uvalde will ever outlive the tragedy, and I&#8217;m not sure they should,&#8221; Patterson said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s become a part of our fabric, and we need to see how we can move together while we don&#8217;t diminish anything that happened there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Mercedes Salas, a teacher at Robb Elementary who survived the massacre and whose own children attended the school, said the school evokes complicated emotions for her and her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;Prior to that day I had a lot of great memories with my coworkers, with my students, you know?&#8221; Salas told ABC News. &#8220;My personal children attended\u2026 and they have nothing but great memories. So, I just have mixed emotions because my last day was a horrible day, you know, a day full of fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Others, like Mata, whose family has attended the school for generations, are ready to see the building go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;Robb Elementary should be a thing of the past,&#8221; Mata said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">There is currently no scheduled date or budget for the demolition of the school, but the district and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin have assured residents that plans are forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Construction is set to begin on a new school adjacent to one of the community&#8217;s existing elementary schools in August for students to attend as early as 2025. 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