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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing. I was disappointed to near nothing. Even though our kids were safe, it just would have helped to have heard from the school.[/quote]

Why?  This happened in another state and had nothing to do with the DC area, private schools, etc.  Why does the school have to be the therapist to families?  (If kids at school need help processing, that's different.)[/quote]Wow!  What an unfeeling person you must be.[/quote]

I've wept when I read the news coverage about the tiny victims and the heroic teachers who died trying to save them.  Talked over with friends and colleagues.  But I didn't expect the school to immediately contact me about something receiving wall-to-wall news coverage that is not in the DC area.  This is Upper School -- perhaps those decrying me as an idiot with a heart of stone have young children.

Let's just leave it with the collective wisdom of DCUM regarding me as a flinty-souled cretin, while I in turn see you as hysterical whiners with too much time on your hands and nothing better to do than use a tragedy as a means to criticize your school's administration.

Ta.[/quote]

I expect my school to have a plan in place for the upcoming week  for dealing with kids asking questions and making statements that might upset other kids.  They email me about everything else under the sun, so yes, I expect an email about that, and I was disappointed to not hear a peep. Don't know why you so wrongly and cynically jump to the conclusion I need my child's school to provide me therapy.  [/quote]

Different poster, but I too thought the original thread asking for info on the range of responses took on a note of carping pretty quickly.  I also think the most important thing is what the schools did at school.  If they were focused on the kids at school and took steps (which they did, as I learned from talking to my child), I was ok with not getting a "day of" email which it seems to me could ratchet up tension.  I'm sure many or most parents share your viewpoint so at a minimum I guess a school would save itself grief by sending out a communication.  The age range of the school would matter too (would expect it would be more likely that schools with young children would send out advice on how to talk to your child).

The original "therapy" post was a tad sharp-tongued (although I think I got where they were coming fom) but responders' flame posts ("idiot" "unfeeling" etc) did not seem to heighten the discourse.[/quote]

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