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The Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers last month will be demolished, the mayor of Uvalde said on Tuesday.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said during a City Council meeting that after speaking with Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell, it was his “understanding” that Robb Elementary School would be demolished. The mayor did not say when the demolition would take place.
“You can never ask a child to go back or teacher to go back in that school ever,” the mayor said at the council meeting.
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On June 2, Harrell announced that nearly 600 students enrolled at Robb Elementary School would not be returning to the building for classes. It is unclear where students from Robb Elementary School will attend classes in the next school year.
In October 2013, demolition began on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, 10 months after a gunman killed 27 people at the school. A new school was built to replace Sandy Hook in a different section of the same property. The new school opened in 2016.
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McLaughlin’s announcement came on the same day Texas’s Department of Public Safety slammed the slow police response to the shooting, with Chief Steven McCraw calling the law enforcement response to the massacre an “abject failure.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Uvalde CISD for more information on the demolition timeline and student relocation plans.
