Interesting post Cranky Yankee. I've been listening to and talking with teachers and parents about how the news of Tuesday was handled in local schools. Schools in this area did not attempt to tell the children what had happened. Teachers were asked not to have the radio on during school on Tuesday. I appreciated that, it meant that children were told by their parents what was going on so we could mediate the information as necessary for them. Then on Wednesday they could talk about it for awhile and then they got on with regular work. One teacher from a blink-and-you-miss-it sized town said that she had a very cheerful child who said he wasn't worried about an attack, nobody could find them on a map. Kids have their own unique way of seeing the world.