After the Sandy Hook shootings the administrators at my daughter’s school decided that to protect the children it is a good idea to lock all the doors and prohibit the children from walking in the halls alone. The classroom doors are all locked so that a child has to knock to get in and they can’t go out. The restrooms are in the hall so the children have to be excused in a group with teacher supervision. Yesterday my daughter forgot her sweater in the gym and wasn’t allowed to go get it.
I wonder what the ramifications of the bombing will be on our daily lives and what freedoms we will have to sacrifice as a result. I worry about that and about the safety of my oldest daughter who lives in Brooklyn and travels to cities all over the world. I live in a rural area so I feel relatively safe from terrorism.
I haven’t told my youngest daughter about the bombing and I didn’t tell her about the shootings, either. I don’t know how to handle it with her. I don’t want her to be afraid of violence that is beyond our control.
