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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry but I am finding it hard to believe that OP did not know anything about the shooting.  It seems very opportunistic and selfish to me.[/quote]

Can’t blame OP for not knowing the extent of what happened. News coverage was pretty bad, highly edited and still unclear. My partner was dodging bullets while protecting students and even I didn’t know what was going until I started following the Washington ATF on Twitter. I had to rely on photos and videos that people near the school posted to Twitter to know exactly what kind of danger my partner was in. That’s when I accidentally clicked on the video posted by the shooter. If you don’t know the layout of the school you may not have originally understood this to be a school shooting or that people inside the school were being shot at exactly at dismissal time. So many news reports still say it was a shooting “near a school”. I also had to rely on spotty news coverage to find out about the family reunification area.

Teachers (and all caregiving professions) have already been exploited during the pandemic to go above and beyond “for the children” and now this trauma. OP, please give the community time to grieve and rebuild.

OP, your kid will have a school to go to next year no matter what! Do you really think handwritten notes or any other kind of communication will suddenly make the school bigger? Or you think they will suddenly acquire funds to hire more staff just for your kid?

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OP here. As I said, this is new territory for us. I was simply asking for suggestions and thoughts on how to address this matter, giving that my kid came to me and asked about wanting to write to Burke. I am starting to think this private school world might not be for us after all, or may be its just some people from they forum.. super snarky. [/quote]

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