Regarding the article, “Marysville Pilchuck cafeteria where shootings occurred won’t reopen”: It was a terrible thing that happened in the Marysville high school cafeteria. It is worse to teach our children they don’t have to face their fears. If you tear down a building where something bad happened just so they don’t have to face re-entering that space, what are you teaching them? How will they face the other problems that are sure to come their way in life? It is our job as parents/adults to teach our children how to be adults. Being an adult is hard work. Teaching children to be adults is even harder. I can imagine some people would be afraid to re-enter the cafeteria where this terrible event occurred, but we can’t remove everything from the world that scares our children. The cafeteria is just a building, nothing more, nothing less.
If someone is have trouble facing their fear, have a counselor there to help. Let’s not teach our children to run away in fear, let’s teach them to overcome their fears. Let’s save our children and save the cafeteria.
Rodger Collins
Everett
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