Teachers Working Through Trauma

LinkedIn has changed over the past few years in that, social expression of the sorts found on Facebook are being placed here between business topics. Interestingly, LinkedIn human experience posts elicit hundreds of comments. A few arousing topics are hiring, firing, recruiting, workplace behaviors and robots replacing people. Nothing, however, prepares us to talk about a massacre. My post is about Parkland, Florida but more directly, the business of teaching. Teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are returning to a work life forever changed. A once-normal school must be put back together by a traumatized work force. Like each one of us, they return to their jobs - except nothing for them is the same as before.
Trauma is the reversal of an expected and intentionally planned-for outcome. The plan for February 14th was teaching students to develop knowledge; the outcome was death. I’m sure many reading this have worked with a co-worker experiencing trauma due to an unexpected incident in life. People DO come to work dealing with trauma. I wonder if teachers and school administrators in Florida will ever view their professions the way they did pre-February 14th. It's not just one  person but, the entire school system trying to function normally in an abnormal, unfamiliar new world.  
Teachers need their local community to encourage and support them, even on normal days. Their business touches all of our lives.
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