After the Robb Elementary School shootings in Uvalde, Texas in late May, I didn’t want my fourth-grade daughter to know the details. I wanted to shield her from knowing about the violence that happened to 10-year-olds just like her, at an American public school just like hers.
I wanted to keep her from being scared to go to school, because she has loved it ever since preschool. I wanted to keep her image of school the same as it was for me when I grew up: a safe haven.
