Danvers Mom Says Despite School Violence and Tragedy, 'Most Kids Are Good'

A Danvers mother, who is a teacher herself, has written a letter to her one-year-old son via her blog this week in an attempt to try and explain the tragic events that happened in their town.

"Pal, a sad thing happened today. A teacher died at a school in our town. She was a teacher, like Mommy, and she died doing a job she seemed to really love. Mommy didn’t know her at all, but it is still really sad for many, many reasons," she wrote.

And in the face of continued violence in schools and as families, parents and students struggle to make sense of these tragedies, there's one thing she hopes her son will never forget as he grows up: "Most kids are good."

"I am reminded time and again, each day, of the power behind that statement. I show up to work and am impressed, challenged, encouraged, and pushed beyond the limits of my imagination by the young men and women who walk through my classroom door. I love spending my days with kids, buddy, I really do," she wrote.

You can find that blog entry, "a letter to my son after the death of a teacher" here.