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Monday, December 17, 2012

Parents Express Fear, Anger After Taking Children to School

More than 24 people shared their emotions on Patch's Facebook page after dropping their kids off at school Monday morning.

Parents throughout the county dreaded Monday morning—not because of the workweek, but because many would have to drop off their children at school with the thought of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting still fresh in their minds. After many said goodbye to their kids Monday, local residents shared their emotions, fears and thoughts on Edgewater-Davidsonville Patch’s Facebook page.  The majority of readers said they experienced a flood of emotion ranging from fear, to sadness to anger. However, the most common occurrence for local parents on Monday? Tears. “I started to tear up and was wailing by the time I got home,” posted Wendy Worth Cronin. Another local reader, Kelly Proctor, wrote, “I drove by the school later and got a lump in…

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