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04/08/2006:
"First-graders get sad news about 'adopted' soldier"
There's no good time in the school day to give bad news about a friend's death.So administrators at Franklin Elementary School waited until just before the school day's end yesterday to let a first-grade class know that the Fort Campbell soldier they "adopted" died after a recent mission in Iraq.
"We want to give them a little time to absorb it," Assistant Principal Marcella Crenshaw said. "It's a lot to absorb for 5- and 6-year-old children. Children are very resilient, but it depends on their personal lives and what they've dealt with like this before."
tennessean.com
I would be ripped if I were the parent of one of these children. Adopt a soldier?? Tell them he's dead and then send them home for their parents to deal (or not) with the confusion and grief they have set the children up for?
