“However, this is exactly what our community is grappling with today.” “I never thought elementary students being the shooter was a possibility we would ever see,” says Kendra Newton, a first-grade teacher in Florida. Jennifer Talarico, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, believes the case hits differently in part because it violates society’s expectations for both school shootings (of which there were two others elsewhere in the country that day) and childhood itself.
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Earlier this month, a 6-year-old brought a gun to school in Virginia and shot his teacher. Authorities described it as unprecedented. But 23 years ago, another 6-year-old brought a gun to school in Michigan and shot a classmate.
He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and then he pulled the trigger. And across the nation, people