His mother WASN'T a teacher at the school after all? [View all]

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/12/nancy_lanza_not_a_teacher.php?ref=fpblg
If true, this is important. I'm a teacher, and yesterday after school I was approached by a distraught parent. She was devastated by the shootings, and seemed very concerned that a teacher's son was the suspect.

If she was not a teacher at the school, this needs to be corrected ASAP. As Josh Marshall, writes, there have been questions about this for hours now, yet mainstream sources are STILL identifying her as a kindergarten teacher at that school.

This fact matters because facts matter. But I know from experience that the idea that it was the teacher's son who did this adds a new layer of terror to the situation for parents.

Also, as a teacher for nearly thirty years, I found it very strange that a credentialed teacher would keep so many high powered weapons (legal or not) in a home with an unbalanced son. It just didn't ring true to me. Teachers aren't perfect, but I was shocked to hear that.

Again, it matters, and if she was not a teacher at the school it needs to be corrected. Even if a correction is made, ninety percent of the population will always believe that it was the teacher's son who did it. Once something like this gets into the public's mind, it's in there for good.