DALLAS — The 13-year-old girl was in gym class when she said she heard a boy tell another classmate, “Don’t come to school tomorrow.”
She didn’t think much of it at first.
But by the end of the school day, the eighth grader couldn’t stop turning those words over in her head. After all, her childhood has been punctuated by shootings: Newtown when she was a toddler. Parkland when she was in elementary school. Uvalde, last year, when 19 children and two teachers were gunned down 384 miles from her school.
