Every one of those people were traumatized that day. There is no easy recovery from this. Every time there is a hearing about yet another gun slaughter in the USA victims of previous crimes turn out for gun control. The loss. The pain. The void. Never goes away. The request of the USA to stop this violence and stop the gun lobby is always there. No one just springs back without emotional trauma as a lingering reality.
People lose their sense of well being. I hate the idea of what those children are going through or how it is effecting their lives and achievement. It was at Christmas. Could it have been worse?
Do they understand they are good children? Do they understand this is not punishment? Do they accept the sincere loss of friends that won't be coming back, but, were good children, too?
How these folks internalize this event is important. How are the Columbine children doing? Achievement? Substance abuse? College? Interpersonal relationships? Continued relationships with family? Did they get pets to give them unconditional love and did that make a difference to their outcome?
www.NewtownPatch.com (click here)
Posted by Valerie Strauss on January 27, 2013 at 1:51 pm
People lose their sense of well being. I hate the idea of what those children are going through or how it is effecting their lives and achievement. It was at Christmas. Could it have been worse?
Do they understand they are good children? Do they understand this is not punishment? Do they accept the sincere loss of friends that won't be coming back, but, were good children, too?
How these folks internalize this event is important. How are the Columbine children doing? Achievement? Substance abuse? College? Interpersonal relationships? Continued relationships with family? Did they get pets to give them unconditional love and did that make a difference to their outcome?
www.NewtownPatch.com (click here)
Posted by Valerie Strauss on January 27, 2013 at 1:51 pm
...Teachers, administrators, (click here) students and staff at Sandy Hook will now have a full week off in mid-February instead of a two-day vacation that had already been scheduled for the entire Newtown Public School District, thanks to a vote by the Newtown Board of Education last week. Connecticut education officials have agreed to allow Sandy Hook to have a school schedule shorter than the state-mandated 180 days, according to NewTown Patch.com. Six days of school were lost at Sandy Hook after the shootings.
The board also voted to keep intact a week-long vacation in April for district public schools, and it approved a measure to give all district staff two additional days off, though they cannot be taken near already scheduled vacations.
“This is a very compassionate move by the board,” Superintendent Janet Robinson said. “I agree with it.”
Members of the Newtown Board of Education also are going to ask the state legislature to award workers’ compensation benefits for teachers and staff who were traumatized by the killings, a move made in the past for police, according to the Stamford Advocate....
The board also voted to keep intact a week-long vacation in April for district public schools, and it approved a measure to give all district staff two additional days off, though they cannot be taken near already scheduled vacations.
“This is a very compassionate move by the board,” Superintendent Janet Robinson said. “I agree with it.”
Members of the Newtown Board of Education also are going to ask the state legislature to award workers’ compensation benefits for teachers and staff who were traumatized by the killings, a move made in the past for police, according to the Stamford Advocate....
