Re: Guns at school Laura Prichett’s, May 17, 2023, opinion article, “Guns have changed everything, especially childhood” in the Glenwood Post is appreciated. Laura is a professor at Western Colorado University in Gunnison. Her knowledge.
Seat belt awareness May launches the Seat Belt Enforcement Campaign by the Colorado State Patrol. “We see the tragic consequences of motorists not wearing their seat belts every day,” said Col. Matthew C. Packard, chief.
In Defiance
I got an email this week from Sonya Hemmen, head of school at Ross Montessori in Carbondale. The subject line was “One year ago,” and attached were several cell phone photos she had taken on March 11, 2020 of students gathered shoulder to shoulder in the school’s spacious entryway.
The images were from the school’s “Peace Presentations.” There were fun hats, special certificates were handed out, a teacher was playing guitar and students were singing.
My how things have changed.
Such a gathering wasn’t even allowed for several ensuing months. Once students returned to classrooms in the fall, any such gathering would require facemasks, students would be separated into smaller “cohort” groups, spaced 6 feet apart … oh, and no passing of papers and certainly no singing!