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Twila Smith

Twila Smith is a teacher at Philip Barbour High School in West Virginia.

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“You are going to die today,” the student told the class as he pointed a loaded gun at my head

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This story was produced by TES and reprinted with permission. This story also appeared in TES On August 25, 2015, I survived a teacher’s worst nightmare: a 14-year-old student in my classroom with a loaded gun. It was seven days into the school year, and so far things were going well at Philip Barbour High […]