MARGARET JO FELDMAN
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                           I Learn to Remember to Not Forget
                           Laser cut on slate chalkboard, chalk
                           H. 36 x W. 60"
                           2023                            

​                          The year I decided to become a classroom teacher was 1999, the same year as the Columbine school shooting in Colorado.  Since that time there have been 392                              people killed and 1,119 injured in school settings according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a publication of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for                                Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS).

                         
A school shooting is a traumatic event that can cause both emotional and physical scars.  Each of these slate chalkboard panels is laser cut with a phrase spoken                           by either a student, a teacher or a 911 operator during a school shooting that occurred at one of the following  schools: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy                                Hook, Connecticut (2012) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, (2018) and  Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas (2022).  The laser                               cut words are covered with chalk dust. 


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