UPDATED: Concord Schools 'Horrified and Deeply Saddened' by Newtown Tragedy
Concord schools will have mental health teams to assist teachers and students with discussions with students, according to Superintendent of Schools Diana Rigby.
UPDATED at 12:45 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 16 Superintendent of Schools Diana Rigby provided the following informatin about how the district is making assistance available to parents in the wake of Friday's tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. She wrote in an email: Principals have reached out to parents with safety information, resources, and comfort. We will have mental health team members available on Monday morning for teachers and parents. Voluntary faculty meetings will be held in the elementary schools before school on Monday to assist teachers with age appropriate responses to student inquiries. Original Post Supreintendent of Schools Diana Rigby on Friday said the district was "horrified and deeply saddened" to …
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Bill Montague
5:53 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012
There is just no way any of us can understand what drives a person to do something as tragic as this. We rack our brains to try to understand what goes on in a person who must be insane. We as sane people spend many hours in an impossible search to try to understand. But as you and I know we cannot understand a person who goes insane. What do we say to our children when they ask for answers. They… more ›