A teacher talks to children about Sandy Hook tragedy
We share this San Francisco Chronicle story about how teacher Steve Rubenstein, the husband of PAA founding member Caroline Grannan, talked to his students about the Sandy Hook school tragedy:
Back at Buena Vista Horace Mann in San Francisco’s Mission District, another teacher, Steve Rubenstein, learned of the tragedy by phone as he and his sixth-graders trooped back to class after seeing a play. A former newspaper reporter, Rubenstein felt it was important for the students to know.He teed it up slowly, even gently.“Shhh!! Eyes on me!” he told the class. “I want to tell you something kind of important that happened this morning. It may scare you. This morning, on the other side of the country, there was a very, very sad thing that happened in a school.“You’ll be hearing about this later on the news, or on YouTube, on Facebook, or in the