It's brutal no matter how it happens, but even if it happens to us as an adult, when something like this happens in the same building you're in, whether you know the person or not, you feel it more intensely. |
We have approximately 1,200 kids in the high school and this affects everyone. Tragedies like this are terribly traumatizing. What we try to do is to bring as much help as possible to the situation immediately as we can. |
We've got a crisis intervention team that comes in and this is comprised of professional psychologists, counselors from throughout the community that come in like a SWAT team, if you will, to help with all the emotional issues being dealt with. |