Heavy Heart: Remembering the Victims
How do I even start this? I'm sure this is how millions of teachers, bloggers, and parents feel today (yesterday, all weekend, every day since we heard the news)! Yesterday at my school, we had a moment of silence at the time of the shooting on Friday. I'm not even going to mention the shooter's name! Yes, he's a person. Yes, he's a soul. But, he also killed 20 innocent children. Some of them, they are saying, he shot multiple times! Really? Why did he need to shoot them more than once? Why did he shoot them at all? I know the news is saying that he has some mental issue. Don't we all? At some time or another, doesn't our brain get to the point that we just can't take it? Don't we all just WANT to go off the deep end some times? However.... no matter our own mental capacities, we all most of us manage to live our daily lives without going over the edge and doing any real harm to other p...