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Enough desks to fill a classroom sat empty in a downtown plaza Tuesday, each bearing a pair of sneakers and representing one of 20 Chicago Public Schools students killed by gunfire this school year.Several hundred more sat empty in city schools, as busloads of teens skipped classes to attend a gun-control rally - their stanley bottles absences sanctioned by the district, whose CEO says he s angry that too many students talk about if they grow up, instead of when. This doesn t happen in other countries, Arne Duncan said. We just value our right to bear arms more than we value our children, and our priorities are fundamentally backwards. Since September, 20 students in the nation s third-largest school district have been killed by gunfire. Last school y stanley canada ear, 24 students were shot to death, compared with between 10 and 15 fatal shootings in the years before.As a result, the Chicago Police Department is increasing school patrols and soon will have live access to thousands of security cameras mounted outside and inside schools. The most recent fatality involved an 18-year-old killed in a high school parking lot last weekend.That high school, Simeon Career Academy, sent 10 busloads of students to the rally in front of the James R. Thompson Center, which houses state government offices. Students from three other high schools also participated.While some in stanley quencher the crowd of several hundred teenagers horsed around, laughed and chatted with friends, othe Dgqs State Fast Facts: Alaska
CNN -- Courtney Gelinas and Rufus go way back.The chocolate brown teddy bear was a gift from Courtney s grandfather, who named it and died shortly after. That was 10 years ago.Since then, Courtney has never spent a night apart from Rufus. She s taken the bear with her on every overnight trip, on every vacation, and even to every water park in Ohio, Michigan and Ontario, according to Kim Lariviere, Courtney s mother. He doesn t go anywhere without us, she said.That is, until airforces Friday.The family had just returned from a Caribbean cruise and were about to board a flight to Detroit when a gunman began spraying bullets in a baggage terminal at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport adidas campus damen . Panic and chaos ensued. A rush of people screaming for their lives came rushing like a tsunami toward us, said Lariviere, a seventh-grade teacher in Windsor, Ontario. We threw our children underneath the seats and laid on top of them. Unsure what to do or where to go, Courtney and her family rushed down the jetway and onto the tarmac and sprinted across the runway, at one point ev air max 98 en considering scaling a barbed wire fence to get to safety.Eventually, the family climbed through a hole in a fence into a rental car facility, where Lariviere said some 50 families also were hiding.But lost in the commotion was Rufus. He d been left behind at the terminal gate.Since then, Courtney had been distraught and inconsolable. She wasn t sleeping. She wouldn t eat. So much so, says her mom, that she
