 On Monday, February 12th, the faculty and students at John M. Stumbo Elementary mourn the loss of one of their own, Miss Vanessa Sloan. Sloan was an eighth grade math teacher who was the victim of an unfortunate accident that occurred last week. John M. Stumbo principal Donna Robinson talks about Sloan's impact on the school and how they're coping with the news. It's a vital part of our school and it's made a huge impact on our students and staff so obviously with a tragic accident like this we want to make sure that we have the people that can come in and help our staff and students deal with such a tragic event. So our district has sent in multiple counselors from the other schools to work with our school counselor and our superintendent. I've been in contact with her since we found out about the accident so we have multiple counselors here today that our kids are talking to and later in the week I know that we're gonna have therapy dogs for the staff and students. They've provided us you know lunch today just trying to help to make make things go a little smoother a little bit better for our kids and for our staff is these first couple days. At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing with 40 years of being in the hearing care industry you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Faculty and students across the district dressed in black to express their grief there will be no school for John M. Stumbo during the memorial service. We're wearing black today at our school one our eighth grade class came up with that she had eighth grade as a homeroom class so the students reached out to us over the weekend and wanted to wear black in honor of her and in remembrance and the whole district decided to pick up on that so our entire school system Floyd County school districts wearing black today and obviously we're I've spoken with the family members and we're going to not have school on the day of the memorial service so that our faculty and staff and students can attend it's just a tough time when you lose someone someone at such an integral part of of your building and has solid relationships with your kids and staff it it makes it it's it's just a hard time it hurts really deep reporting from out on top news I'm Nick Colum