Steve Joordens

But in fact, it could literally haunt them and cause them to relive this incident over and over and over.

Yeah.

I mean, for those children, they might literally feel like they're right back there.

But for everybody, the way our memory system works, it's all based on cues.

So we connect events and stuff with things in the environment, with stuff that was going on.

And so, yeah, they'll come back.

They'll see that desk where their friend was and their friend is no more there.

They will, you know,

just imagine and associate so much of that school with the tragedy and that's not something they can control so just walking through and i mean even a parent dropping that child off and and seeing other parents and seeing other children and maybe some of those other parents won't be at the drop-off spot anymore and you know that's enough to kind of bring that person back and and make them experience it you know most most of all learning needs to be safe that's when it when it works well

And that has been scarred for all of them.

Very few of them, parents, children alike, are going to feel like that school is a safe place for a long time now.

Yeah, I mean, we have a natural reaction.

It's a very important one.

And that natural reaction is one of coming together.

You know, you see it like in the van attack on Yonge Street in Toronto.

Take any tragedy, literally, and I can guarantee you this will happen today.

They will all come together as a community.

They will bond and kind of see themselves as, and this is a source of strength, right?

They've just been victimized.

They've been attacked by a force and that's scary.