Editor’s Note: As jurors deliberate a verdict for Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston and its surrounding towns continue to feel the aftereffects of the bombing. Dr. Barbara Gortych of Watertown, which was the epicenter of a manhunt for Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan, talks about how her district has helped educators and students cope with trauma from the events, both after the bombing and during the trial.
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I work in Watertown, Massachusetts, the 4.5-square-mile town that in April 2013 became the site of the massive manhunt for the Boston Marathon bomber. In one focal area of the town, police in full gear entered homes in the middle of the night, set up posts, searched, evacuated families and eventually had a gunfight. Police helicopters constantly swarmed over the town in the search for the suspect. All of our students and the 60 percent of our faculty who live in Watertown were affected.
[For more of this story, written by Dr. Barbara Gortych, go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/up...ing-students-trauma/]
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