Murders of students amid the pandemic strain schools’ ability to cope, heal – Chicago Sun-Times*

"Chicago has lost 57 school-aged children to gun violence this year, 16 of them in elementary or middle school...In 2020, 49 kids were killed, 12 of them before they reached high school. Dozens more 18-year-olds, who were either current or recent students, were fatally shot, their deaths also reverberating in their school communities. Then there are the kids who are injured in shootings but survive, like the Phillips Academy High School student who, along with a security guard, was struck by gunfire as she walked out of the building this fall."