LPS Provides Tips for Talking to Kids About Newtown Tragedy

A letter sent home to parents – and shared here – provides “some words of support over the weekend should this event come to your child’s attention. And an email sent Saturday morning provides age-appropriate guidelines for talking to children about trage

  “Shocked” and “saddened” are words many have used to describe the tragedy that struck Newtown, Conn, on Friday, Dec. 14, and the Lexington Public Schools are no different. “We are all shocked and saddened by the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,” Superintendent of Schools Paul Ash wrote in an email to Patch. “No words can explain such a horrible act. Explaining school security standards, Ash said at each K-5 school, the school doors at locked when school begins each day. And all school principals have been trained in security measures should an intruder enter the building. “The training program was funded by a federal grant and security materials are in each school,” Ash said. “Since some measures …

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