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From: paul@axiom.UUCP (Paul O`Shaughnessy)
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Subject: Re: The Shuttle Aftermath
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 13:31:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 13:31:45 1986
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I know that the shuttle tragedy was traumatic for the children watching,
and I was upset for days afterward.  However, I'd like to offer this 
counterpoint to all the talk of children being scarred for life by this
event.  I have friends who teach at the Concord NH school where Christa
McCauliffe taught.  Apart from eyewitness news creeps trying to get camera
shots of children crying, they were descended upon by flocks of social
workers and psychologists reminding each and every child that they *will*
remember this event and they *will* be scarred for life and space flight 
*really* isn't that dangerous.  J.C. Almighty!  The kids are going to be
more screwed up by the efforts to "cure" them than by anything else!
Space flight is dangerous, NASA is fallible, several greatly admired 
personal heros were killed, and that's that!  These children will be no
more scarred by this than I am by President Kennedy's assasination.
Unless, of course, the psychologists are interested in job security.

My profound apologies to social workers and psychologists in general,
but what I have been told about this school borders on the absurd.