An End to This Madness
A little over a year after the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, author Glennon Doyle published a post titled "Share This With All The Schools, Please" on her blog, momastery.com . I love this post. And after every headline since Sandy Hook detailing yet another tragic school shooting, some media outlet goes back to momastery and finds it and republishes it in the hopes that maybe this time, enough people will pay enough attention that things will change. Because, you see, the teacher Doyle describes in her post was a truly outstanding educator who goes above and beyond for her students as a result of her profound understanding of the social-emotional responsibility that we in education have to our children. But despite her valiant efforts, approximately 94 school shootings still took place in the U.S. between the initialization of her scheme by Harris and Klebold's massacre in Littleton (1999) and the publication of Doyle's post. While