I feel like I lost my edge Effects of Freeman High School shooting still echo for teachers

SPOKANE — On Oct. 25, 2021, a 14-year-old boy brought a loaded gun in his backpack to University High School. Thankfully, no one was hurt or killed. The boy showed the gun to fellow students in the bathroom. They reported it to school officials, and he was quickly arrested. For Marty Jessett, though, the incident had a shattering impact. The boy had sat in Jessett’s first-period algebra class with that backpack between his feet — a backpack with no textbooks, no notebooks, no pencils or folders. The only thing inside was a loaded handgun. After school, when Jessett learned what…