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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.  [b]This is Upper School -- perhaps those decrying me as an idiot with a heart of stone have young children.  [/b]

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][/quote]My kids are in upper school.  I remember when a few years back when the snipers held the D.C/MD/VA area as emotional and mental hostages and the schools were locked down, there was wall-to-wall news coverage nationwide.  Family outside of the area could not get through because the phone circuits were tied up.  I welcomed the constant emails from the school.  Upper school or not, these are still are babies.

And, no, I don't think you have a heart of stone but I think if you had included how you too wept about Newtown's tiny victims instead of castigating the poster who was concerned about emails, this topic would not have taken this turn.  Sorry, but that's the way I see it.[/quote]

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