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[quote=Anonymous]20:44  To spell it out.  The reason that parents - especially of young children - feel their school should send out a letter is due to fear of copycat shooters.  Right now there is some nutcase who shot 50 rounds in a parking lot at the Fashion Square Galleria, Newport, CA.  So, yes, a shooting in school out-of-state is of concern to every parent living in D.C., MD and VA   Parents correctly want to know what safety protections are already in place and what new protections will be put into place because these horrific nationally-reported events encourage copycat shootings.

The same occured after 9/ll.  Many schools enacted restrictive sign-in/buzz-in procedures.  Some got lax about it.  Some don't have any at all, like my local public high school.  Parents want to know what their schools are doing on Monday in order to address the copycat phenomenon.

Also, for the young, parents want to know how the school is going to address discussion of the event, if at all. Or are they going to have counselors on hand to discuss it?    Personally, after 9/ll, we took our kids out of private school for a few days because we lost a dear friend in it and had to handle funeral arrangements - but also our kid were quite young and I didn't want them to hear from  other kids on the playground about people burning jumping from windows.  We turned off the TVs, put out the flag and hunkered down into mourning.  It was the right call - the older child has minimal memories and no nightmares - the youngest doesn't remember it at all  In sharp contrast, a mom friend let her same-aged daughter watch tV nonstop and saw the stills in the newspapers of the people jumping.  And the mother wondered why the child woke up screaming at night. [/quote]

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