According to NYCDOE’s website, “Let’s Learn” is geared toward an audience of 3-K to second grade, or children between ages 3 to 8. It is meant to feature “lessons taped by educators” and “offers age-appropriate content that is aligned to education standards and lessons for early childhood education, focusing on foundational reading and writing skills, literacy, math, science, social studies, and the arts.”
Media attention to gun violence tends to be doled out in predictable, limited ways: when a mass shooting happens, when the anniversary of such a tragedy is marked or when the use of deadly force by law enforcement or citizens is questioned.
Dr. Claire McCarthy, MD, a pediatrician and medical communications editor at Boston Children’s Hospital, has been a primary care pediatrician and a writer for over 20 years. McCarthy wrote in a blog post on the Boston Globe what parents should do first, even though she was still shaking herself.