MoCo families - did you tell your kids about the shootings?

[Anonymous]

What did you say?

[Anonymous]

Yes I did. I told them a man wanted to "hurt people" and the school locked the doors to keep them safe. I told them if something ever happened where the school wanted to keep them safe after dismissal, not to worry and I would always come get them as son as I could.

[Anonymous]

My daughter came home asking questions. She is in first grade and I work in a school. She wanted to know if my school had it too. We cleared up her misunderstandings and answered the questions she had in an honest and kid appropriate way.
After 9/11 and the sniper in 2002, mcps students are used to various types of drills so none of this should have been new to any of the kids. The main difference was the length of time that this lasted (drills are usually less than 5-10 minutes).

[Anonymous]

Yes, I told them the exact happenings, because I always tell them things like that. They are in K and 5th.

[Anonymous]

I told my older DDs but was going to tell my 6 year old a more general overview without explicit details. A middle school kid, however, told all the es age kids what happened in pretty explicit detail as the kids were getting off the bus after school. She was at the bus stop meeting a 1st grade sib. I wasnt at the stop because my 5th grade dd walks her the two house walk from the bus each day.

[Anonymous]

Yup. But only because he saw the texts on my husband's phone when I was telling my husband about it. He's 9.

[Anonymous]

Yes, told my 9 and 10 year olds (the school didn't) since I'd rather they heard it from me than at school a few days later.

[Anonymous]

Yes, told them exactly what happened. This is America, they need to know about crazies and their guns.

[Anonymous]

No. Our school kept silent and so did we. She is 10. If she brought it up, we would have talked about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, told them exactly what happened. This is America, they need to know about crazies and their guns.

+1
These are the voters of the future. They need to know what they have to rectify in the future.

[Anonymous]

Told them that there was a crazy Philaphina (from the Phillapines) shooting people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Told them that there was a crazy Philaphina (from the Phillapines) shooting people.

It was a man, he is an American, and it's called the Philippines.

[Anonymous]

No. My child's school sheltered in place, but my child didn't notice anything different about the day (it's not like they were going to go outside in the pouring rain anyway). There's no reason she needed to know, so I decided not to scare her. She doesn't easily know the difference between "happens infrequently" and "something to be scared of all the time" and I don't want her to be scared to go out and about in the world.

[Anonymous]

I was curious as to what the school told the kids and how they implemented the shelter in place....So, I asked my 10 yo if he knew they had been in "shelter-in-place." He kind of knew. He said that there was an announcement for teachers to check their email. Then he asked me why and I briefly said that there was a man who shot some people and the police wanted to keep everyone safe. But, they had caught the man. My 6 yo was also in the car when I was explaining this.

If they hadn't had caught the man/shooter, I'm not sure if I would've brought up the topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter came home asking questions. She is in first grade and I work in a school. She wanted to know if my school had it too. We cleared up her misunderstandings and answered the questions she had in an honest and kid appropriate way.
After 9/11 and the sniper in 2002, mcps students are used to various types of drills so none of this should have been new to any of the kids. The main difference was the length of time that this lasted (drills are usually less than 5-10 minutes).

Your first grade daughter wasn't even born before 9/11 and sniper. Just because the school may be used to it, doesn't mean a 6yr old is. Not only was the drill longer but they all knew it was real.