“It makes me sad that not every child or school has what we have. And that’s why we want everyone to have what we have,” said Spurgeon.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A group of Fort Worth parents have band together to try to improve the safety of their school.
It started with the tragedy in Uvalde, where 18 school children and two teachers were murdered. Late May marks the one-year anniversary of the tragedy.
“It was very hard to watch,” said Amber Spurgeon, who started the nonprofit Texans Against School Violence. She’s also a mother of two children at Tanglewood Elementary.
“It’s a sad world, it’s a scary world. Our children are our future,” said Charity Aughinbaugh, another parent with the nonprofit.
Texans Against School Violence, or TASV, was created in October and launched in November of 2022.
“Our mission is to provide protection for every child, through law enforcement security measures, at …