Don’t Let My Classmates’ Deaths Be in Vain<br />Now every time I look up “Marjory Stoneman Douglas” on the internet, the top suggestion is “shooting.”<br />My friends, classmates and teachers are dead.<br />The next thing I knew I heard people running and shouting, and my teacher yelling at us to get back in the class.<br />My phone flooded with messages from friends and family, from other states and other countries, asking if I was O. K.<br />The world knew what was happening even before we did.<br />Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., hid in closets as a gunman fired a semiautomatic weapon into their classrooms.<br />My parents chose Parkland to settle in because of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s stellar reputation,<br />and because we thought that it was a safe place to live.
