Can You Imagine?
School Shootings and Other Absurdities
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5 min readMay 25, 2022
Yesterday, 19 elementary children and a teacher were shot and killed. Can you imagine?
When I was a 12th grade English teacher, I used to use the book, The Stranger by Albert Camus, in my class. It was one of a handful of books with dark themes about the underbelly of humanity. In it, a man does not cry at his mother’s funeral — a fact that is…