One message said “I know where this girl lives,” she said. Other threats included, “We’ll jump every girl named Hannah in tenth grade,” and, “Hannah will have a rough day at school on Monday,” Hannah told Boris Sanchez in the CNN Newsroom on Sunday night. .
The teen said she understands why people are overwhelmed, but she said she shared the photo because she felt it was the right thing to do.
“I feel like a lot of teachers have my backs because they know how dangerous it goes to school. But I know that a lot of the kids I go to school with, I already have backlash, threats and things like that, “Hannah said. “I know I’m doing the right thing and it will not stop me from doing it. But it’s concerning, especially since it’s a lot of the people I go to school with, people who ‘. I’ve known him for years now, threatening me. “
School is closed after students test positive
Last week, the high school in Dallas, Georgia, – about 40 miles from Atlanta – attracted national attention because of Hannah’s photo. The viral image showed students in a crowded school hall with poorly visible masks. The school district was restored on August 3rd.
Hannah previously told CNN that she shared the photo because she cared about the safety of her classmates and school staff, as well as the wider community.
As of Sunday, nine students at the school had tested positive for the virus and announced to the district that learning would move online for Monday and Tuesday.
After the news that the school will close for at least two days, Hannah said many people have told her that they are being tested for the virus.
“I have heard from many friends that they have been tested or that their family members have been tested as their teacher because it has not been safe these few days,” she said. “We were only at school for three days and the fact that we already had nine cases at the end of that week is concerning because we do not know how many people those nine people came in contact with.”
“It will spread like wildfire at that school,” she added.
School ‘used us as guinea pigs’
Hannah previously told CNN that she has no regrets about sharing the photo.
Sunday, she said she did not think the school would have tackled the problem as early as it did if she had not posted the picture.
“We could have just opened up like a lot of other schools,” she said. “They kind of sent us to school and used us as guinea pigs to see what would happen later.”
The sophomore also said that she understands that people want to have the option of learning in school for various reasons, and she does too, but it’s just not safe yet.
“We’re all scared to go back and I know a lot of my teachers are too. Because we all want to go after them personally,” Hannah said. “I do not intend to close the province because I know a lot of people are not learning well online, I am not learning well online, and I want to be able to go to personal school and have some sort of normality this year for my semester. But we can not if we are not safe. “
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