Not Ready For Stabbing At Middle School

Re: Woodland Middle Schooler charged with aggravated battery in school stabbing /Jody Lawrence-Turner, SR

My wife had the re-action I’m sure some of you had when she heard about the stabbing at stabbing at Woodland Middle School Friday afternoon. She immediately thought of our eighth-grade nephew who attends one of the other middle schools in town. “That could have been William,” she said. I was too busy listening to the scanner and trying to pull together photos and e-mails from Woodland officials forwarded to me by some of you, to think about the personal repercussions. My attention was riveted the minute I heard a dispatcher say, “Woodland Middle School … stabbing.” I wasn’t sure if I heard those last words right. Stabbing? In one of our middle schools? Coeur d’Alene has changed from the quiet, idyllic place that I moved to in 1984. But I wasn’t quite ready for a middle schooler to stab another student. How about you? (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

Question: Has the stabbing at Woodland Middle School affected you in any way?