to felix and kimberly rubio. their 10-year-old daughter, lexi was a 4th grader here at robb elementary school. just very quickly, what had happened is they thought it was going to a great day. they had come to the school on tuesday morning because lexi made the honor role. there was a big award celebration. they were here in morning to celebrate that. they went home and 30 minutes later they got the call that there was a shooting. turns out that lexi s father is a uvalde county sheriff s deputy. you can imagine his heart ache. he hears about a shooting, rushing to the school and finds out that his own daughter was one of the victims. i spoke to them just a short while ago. here is what they had to say. for someone to take her life. all i can hope is it s not a
the vehicle, went into the school and started shooting indiscriminately at children and teachers. take a look at this video. this is showing kids being evacuated from the school. robb elementary services 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade. the children who attend classes here are predominantly 7-year-olds, 8 year-olds, 9-year-olds and 10-year-olds. horrific to think about they experienced today. the big question now is all the parents out there, there are so many wondering are their children ok? there are so many missing children tonight with loved ones waiting to find out information on their little boy is or little girl. are they going to get a phone call that changes their life tonight? some of them haven t heard from their kids since earlier today before they went to school. i want to show you this photo right here, if we can pull up this picture. this is a 10-year-old girl, a 4th grader here at robb elementary school. her name is elijah cruz torres. we spoke to her grandfather
mother of a 4th grader. your school district says we are not listening to the governor. right. we want our kids in our school to still wear their mask. how do you feel about that? i feel they are protecting us. they are protecting our kids i love it. notably, one of the governor s children goes to a private out of state high school that does are a mask mandate. we wanted to ask the governor about that. and about school districts in his state defying his order but our request to speak with him was declined. however, his spokesperson did send us a statement saying the governor is allowing virginians to opt out of the mask mandates so that parents can choose what s best for their children. over the weekend, the governor did say on camera that school districts need to listen to parents. because we will use every resource within the governor s authority to explore what what we can do and will do in order to make sure that parents rights are protected. reporter: and he does
mask map date. reporter: jason is the superintendent of richmond s 55 public schools. here in richmond and a number of other school districts across the state, there is concern that without mask mandates, the spike in covid cases will only get worse. anna mason is the mother of a 2nd grade daughter at the west overhills school. she says despite her superintendent s stance, the governor s order which takes effect next monday is very concerning. feel really disappointed. why? because i m scared. i am scared for my kid. i am scared for her classmates. yeah. i feel like this is what other protection do we have? reporter: mccormick is the mother of a 4th grader. your school district says we are not listening to the governor. right. we want our kids in our school to still wear their mask. how do you feel about that? i feel they are protecting us. they are protecting our kids i love it. notably, one of the governor s children goes to a
before this year. our 6th graders were in 4th grade when they were last in school. um, and so, meeting the the bar that is kind of expected of a 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, whatever grader, they are being asked to meet that behavioral and developmental bar and that academic bar and they miss both of them so it is hard to meet the academic one, when you are still trying to figure out how do i stop being a 4th grader? it s 1:45 p.m. on a thursday. hi. hi. i m evan. cnn, nice to see you. how are you? so what usually goes on in this room? so i teach language arts and evening language development but we also do advisory. today, we are going to do some gratitude and some goal setting for academics but we are also going do mindfulness. we are one of the only schools that has somebody that does yoga and plans mindfulness for us. we are going to do some breathing, and then we will do little meditation or