I work in an elementary school. Yesterday, I took a personal day as I do every year around this time.
I was out running errands and when I came home I took care of my purchases and turned on the computer to the terrible headline. My heart broke as I read what happened. To know that the parents of those children and the families of the adults that lost their lives will forever be changed. No second chances for any of them.
Knowing that we live in times where this could have happened at anyone of the schools across our country. I constantly ask myself what has gone so wrong that people even think about this type of thing much carry it out?
As a child, that something like this could happen never even entered my mind, much less those of our teachers and parents. As for the surviving children of that school their innocence is forever lost. What a terrible legacy to have to live with.
How sad that as other schools wake up to the fact that it could have been them, we now will prepare the rest of the children for this possibility. Less innocence, more fear.
My thoughts and prayers go out to their families and friends, also. May God keep us all in His loving arms.
