Uvalde Elementary School To Shutter Permanently

San Antonio’s ABC News affiliate reports:

No students or staff will be returning to Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the site of a tragic massacre last month, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell reaffirmed Friday.

“We’re not going back to that campus,” Harrell said during a special meeting of the board of trustees, and added he expects to have a new address for the school in the “very near future.”

The superintendent’s reassurance followed a tearful mother who spoke to the panel and pleaded for incoming second graders who were set to attend Robb Elementary to be relocated, saying through sobs her son has been traumatized by the violence.

Read the full article. Last week it was reported that the federal government would pay for the school to be razed and rebuilt, but that plan is apparently off.