On Friday, two teachers killed in last year’s shooting at Apalachee High School will be added to the National Memorial to Fallen Educators in Emporia, Kansas.
Cristina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall both worked as math teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder.
On September 4th of last year they were killed during a school shooting that also took the lives of two students.
Now, they will be honored along with seven other U.S. teachers who died in the service of education.
Maddie Fennell is the executive director of the National Teachers Hall of Fame, she says that while every death is tragic, preventable shooting deaths are especially impactful.
“I think that makes it even more tragic because we’re not doing everything we can do to stop that.”
Both teachers will have their names inscribed on large, black granite books on campus at Emporia State University.
This article comes to Now Habersham in partnership with GPB News
