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I teach three high school Marketing classes and had planned something fun for the next few days. However, I believe what I had planned would be inappropriate after what happened in CT on Friday. Is anyone else changing their lesson plans? Are you going to address the situation with your students? I have no idea what our administration has planned or how they will address the situation.
High school students don't need more exposure to what has just happened unless they were somehow directly affected. Knee jerk reactions to what happened at New Town Ct. don't do any good. Are you yourself a trained psychologist? High school age students outside of the immediate area of the shootings have already had more than enough exposure and have time to contemplate what transpired there.
We received direction from administration (who received it from county/district level) not to mention it at all, and to keep responses short and factual if students asked questions. The only students who mentioned anything were the hooligans who made inappropriate jokes that I squashed. No one had any serious comments about it (that they said to me).
For older students, I would suggest using Mockingbird by Kathyrn Erskine if you want to do something about a school shooting and how closure can happen. It has the advantage of getting into the mind of a child with asperger's syndrome and telling the story from her perspective after her beloved brother is killed in such a shooting.
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