School Re-Named to Honor Victoria Soto – Sandy Hook Hero
HoneySpot Elementary School in Stratford, Connecticut will be named after Victoria Soto, the 27-year-old teacher who died trying to shield her young students from the gunman.
On Monday, Mayor John Harkins’ name-change recommendation was approved. Monday was also the one-month anniversary of the terrible shooting which claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 members of the school staff.
Soto graduated from Stratford High School. As the recommendation was approved, those in attendance gave a standing ovation. HoneySpot will now be named Victoria Soto School.
A petition is now going around to have a street named after the first grade teacher as well.
On Friday, December 14, as the gunman opened fire in the school, Soto ushered her students into a closet. When the horrific incident was over, Soto was found huddled over her students, having used her body as a shield between the shooter and the children.
“She loved those students more than anything,” Carlee Soto, her sister told Today. “She didn’t call them her students; she called them her kids.”
This article was first published in Hispanically Speaking News.
