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Jennifer Greif Green, Associate Professor of Special Education, Boston University

FOUND: Teachers often struggle to address mass traumatic events in class | Mind Blowing Facts

Educators get little to no training in how to deal with traumatic events. Pixelimage / Getty Images

After the Paris attacks of 2015 – a series of attacks in which gunmen opened fire on nightspots and a concert hall in Paris – a U.S.-based high school teacher of French described her failure to discuss the attacks in class as a “lost opportunity.”

“I was working through my own feelings and did not know how to approach it,” she told us in a survey after the attacks. “I only talked about it when the students brought it up and I kept conversations short.

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