{"id":466,"date":"2006-09-14T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2006\/09\/14\/the_morning_after\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:05:15","slug":"the_morning_after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/09\/14\/the_morning_after\/","title":{"rendered":"The morning after"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks for your comments on the previous post; so far I have heard from two of my Dawson friends, and both are fine. They both thought to send group e-mail messages – the Internet is a wonderful thing.
\nJB mentioned being a Cegep student in December, 1989, when Marc Lepine gunned down 14 women at the Ecole Polytecnique. I was a student here at Vanier in ’89, and I remember only too well. Right now, we have extra security on campus, and there are meetings in progress to discuss whether or not we should have more security on a permanent basis.
\nColin had nightmares last night about the incident.
\nWhen things like this happen, we often hear people describing their reaction as feeling “helpless” – I think we mean helpless in a psychological, emotional sense. We can ‘help’ – many already have, such as the Concordia people, who sheltered Dawson students, gave them Metro tickets and used their shuttle bus to get students to the nearest open Metro station. Hema-Quebec<\/a> is organizing blood drives to buffer the supply, especially of type O-.
\nBut when I stood in front of my two classes this morning, or when I looked into my son’s eyes last night, I felt helpless.
\nI tried to express to my students that as teachers and staff here at Vanier, most of us also have friends at Dawson. We are asking the same questions; we are feeling the same emotions; we are thinking the same thoughts. All we can do is… be “we.”
\nWhat do I say to my children? My students, it’s sad to say, are worldly enough now to know that sometimes, life gets ugly. How do I talk about this with my boys, who still see the world in terms of good guys and bad guys, a place where the people who get shot have done something wrong?
\nHelpless.
\nUPDATES TO YESTERDAY’S POST: For the fact-checkers, the news reports today state that the shooter was killed by the police and did not kill himself, although one report claimed that he turned his gun on himself after being wounded by police. The young woman who was killed was an 18-year-old student. The 20 other wounded are being treated at area hospitals; six of the victims are still listed as “critical,” two of them extremely so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks for your comments on the previous post; so far I have heard from two of my Dawson friends, and both are fine. They both thought to send group e-mail messages – the Internet is a wonderful thing. JB mentioned being a Cegep student in December, 1989, when Marc Lepine gunned down 14 women at … <\/p>\n

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