Louisiana Educator Shares The Fears Of 'Every Teacher You Know' After Texas School Shooting

While the nation mourns the loss of 21 innocent lives at the hands of an 18-year-old armed with a legally bought AR-style rifle, a teacher in Louisiana opened up about living in constant fear for her students' lives.

Angelle Terrell, who has taught high school social studies for 11 years, took to her Facebook account to list the mental preparations every teacher makes in case an active shooter situation arises in the school. In the now-viral post, Terrell said she felt the need to speak out as the Tuesday shooting incident left her "heartbroken and sick."

Terrell starts the post with, "Every teacher you know has thought about it. Every teacher you know has a plan for an active shooter.

"Every teacher you know has weighed their point of fight or flight. Every teacher you know has walked their room looking for blind spots," the post continues. "Every teacher you know has wondered how fast they can lock a door."

Terrell then talks about how the sound of a fire alarm, an unplanned announcement, or the scream of a kid from the school quad brings the thought of an active shooter to mind. "Every teacher you know has thought about how hard it would be to keep 25 young people quiet," she continues.

The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which sits 90 minutes west of San Antonio, Texas, was carried out by an armed teen, identified as Salvador Ramos, who entered the campus, barricaded himself inside a classroom, and opened fire on students aged between 8 and 10 years.

19 children lost their lives in the massacre. Also killed in the shooting were two beloved teachers, Eva Mireles, 44, who taught at the school for 17 years, and Irma Garcia, a 5-year veteran at the school. Mireles and Garcia were gunned down while trying to protect their students.

Ramos was shot dead by the cops.

Terrell told Good Morning America that she couldn't choke back her emotions any longer, and speaking about her fears publicly brought her some sort of emotional relief.

"I just felt that I needed some sort of release because, as a teacher who thinks about all of those things all of the time, I just couldn’t keep them under wraps anymore," Terrell told the outlet. "I felt like I wanted to say what I always think in the wake of some sort of mass shooting."

At the end of the post, Terrell hoped that fellow teachers will be able to relate to her fears and would agree that they also felt the same at some point in their careers. "And, at some point in their lives, children in a classroom think at least one (if not all) of these things as well," she wrote. "I'm just sick. Heartbroken and sick."

Terrell's post has been shared almost 6,000 times at the time of writing, and has received hundreds of comments from Facebook users, many of them teachers, who admitted they have similar concerns when it comes to the safety of their students.

"Every year, we start our trainings not with curriculum or assessment but with active shooter training," one user commented. "We literally prepare for this. It is dreadful."