Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

I was an elementary school teacher.

I don't think it's worth as much as an elementary school right now, but if it did we might consider that. I personally don't see it sold in the near future.

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

A lot of people think we are a total magnet school. Really, we are an elementary school with a magnet component. It's kind of like we have two schools under one roof. We have Program A, which is the neighborhood school, and Program B, which is the arts magnet school.