msnbc.com’s Gabriela Resto-Montero is covering Friday’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Any updates or breaking news will be posted in her article on the main page. We at The Ed Show can only add our sympathy and condolences to the families affected and the Newtown community, and beg all of you to do the same.
Nothing we say or do can eradicate the pain and suffering being felt in Newtown and elsewhere. But please, direct your compassion towards them anyway. It may be woefully inadequate, but it’s the human thing to do.
Ned Resnikoff is an urban policy analyst, researcher, writer, and editor. His byline has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Dissent, and The Nation. He writes the newsletter Public Comment, which can be found at publiccomment.blog.