I've spent the last two days trying to sort this out, and the numbers just aren't adding up.

Most reports say that 14 kids died in the first classroom. Earlier this week, the Daily Mail posted the class photo of those kids. I've spent the last two days trying to sort out this story, and the numbers just aren't adding up.

The general consensus seems to be that 14 children died in first clasroom and 6 in the second.

So, in Ms. Soto's classroom, 6 were killed and 7 were found hiding in a closet. That's 13 children.

We were told fairly early that Aidan Licata was able to escape from that classroom and that he held the door for two of his classmates. [link to www.cnn.com] (The story about him holding the door is in the video on that page). At least 3 kids therefore escaped. A women picked them up and drove them to the police station. (in other accounts, the woman drove the kids to the fire department where everyone had evacuated).

So that would be a total of at least 16 students.

According to the Daily Mail, a friend posted online, "I talked to Vicki on Tuesday and she told me that she loved her 16 angels and never wanted to let them go." [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

So that's some evidence that Ms. Soto had 16 students.

And 16 students makes sense, given that the other classroom had 15 students and Kaitlin Roig, another first grade teacher, also had 15 students. [link to www.youtube.com]

It's Gene Rosen's story that doesn't fit easily with these numbers. And I don't think anybody had suggested that Soto had as many as nineteen students until Rosen's story appeared.

What's interesting is that Rosen said that he hosted 4 girls and 2 boys from Victoria Soto's class, and we can calculate that 4 girls and 2 boys died in that classroom... A total of 8 boys died, and there were 6 boys in the first classroom [link to i.dailymail.co.uk] which means that 2 boys died in the second.