[Vision2020] Principal pushed children out of the way before being killed by bus in Indiana

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of CNN at:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/indiana-school-bus/

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Principal pushed children out of the way before being killed by bus in Indiana
(CNN) - So often, words are left unspoken. People never get around to saying how much they appreciate someone.

Not so for Susan Jordan, the principal at an Indiana elementary school, who died saving the lives of her students Tuesday. 

While she was hailed as heroic after her death for the way she sacrificed herself to save others, Jordan knew in life how much she was truly admired.

Last May, the students and staff at Amy Beverland Elementary School told her exactly how they felt about her in a video.

"Thank you Mrs. Jordan so much for all that you do," begins the 11-minute tribute to the strains of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

A fixture
The longtime educator was a fixture at the school, spending more than two decades there as principal.

It's the reason Adam Baker moved his family to Lawrence Township, northeast of Indianapolis.

"It was for all the good things we had heard about Principal Jordan and everything that was going on (there)," he told CNN affiliate WXIN.

Her last act came at the end of school on Tuesday. Jordan was helping load kids for the ride home, when one of the buses suddenly jumped the curb.

The bus driver told firefighters that she's not sure why the bus the lurched forward, but that she saw Jordan push several students out of the way, according to Rita Reith with the Indianapolis Fire Department.

"They just loved her," she said. "Up to the minute she was alive, she was helping the kids." 

The students she saved, both 10, were taken to a hospital in serious condition, but with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, which is near Indianapolis, announced it would not hold classes Wednesday as the community mourns Jordan's loss.

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