'It's Just So Unfair': Florida Teacher Who Hid Students Recounts School Shooting
Melissa Falkowski says she and her students hid in a closet for more than an hour before the SWAT team came. She thought it was only 30 minutes.
The funerals continue Tuesday for those killed last week in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Melissa Falkowski, a journalism and English teacher at the school who hid 19 students in her classroom closet when she learned there was an active shooter, spoke with Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti while getting ready for 16-year-old victim Carmen Schentrup’s funeral.
“I’ve already been to two funerals. They’re horrible, they’re gut-wrenching,” Falkowski says. “Just the loss of the
