The boy brought a gun to school after finding it in bedroom of the house where he was staying with his uncle.
Parents are the primary educators of their children.
Woloszyk, who spends time with each class at the school once a week, said she did talk Wednesday with a group of sixth-graders about the Mt. Morris incident. They, too, questioned if a child really realizes the finality of it at that age level. In Petoskey, Patti Jakeway said the tragedy had not come up in her class and she thought students could best discuss it with their parents. Jakeway teaches first grade at Licoln Elementary School. At Glenn Loomis Elementary in Traverse City, teacher Sue Girard said only one of her first-graders mentioned it, in passing, as he was hanging up his coat.