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Mich. Kids are Going to School Traumatized - and Teachers Lack Training, Resources to Help [freep.com]

 

By Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, December 15, 2019

One wintry Tuesday morning, as Tavia Redmond welcomed her third-grade students to class, she asked young Michael why he had missed school the day before.

“He told me that the reason he wasn’t here was because he was dead,” she recalled.

“I said, ‘Well, you couldn’t have been dead and be back today.’ He said: ‘I was dead. I died over the weekend.’ ”

Later, Redmond learned that Michael's older brother had tried to kill himself — again.

And Michael had witnessed it. Again.

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