MSD Shooting and the Loss of a Great Teacher

I’ve had a lot of thoughts after learning about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

When I taught at South Broward, Chris Hixon was a teacher there.

For three years I went to that school once a month for weekend debate tournaments with my team.

We had very different styles, but he was always helpful to me in getting the students involved in sports teams more motivated than they would be on their own accord. For a starting teacher, this is a huge deal.

Hearing of what he did before he was shot didn’t suprise me at all. I’m sharing the below as a poor iteration of a memorial for someone I didn’t know all that well personally, but through our interactions always impressed me as a person of great character.

Athletic Director Chris Hixon tried to disarm shooter to save the students he loved

February 20, 2018 06:44 PM