In the last 2.5 weeks there have been multiple threats of students harming one another, but yesterday the district learned of a mass shooting threat to both of the high schools in town. As a precaution all schools in town were closed today.

My daughter is in kindergarten. I didn't really plan to tell her anything about her day off from school if she didn't ask. Unfortunately, she did. My husband wanted to tell her that she had the day off because school needed to be cleaned. I wasn't comfortable with lying and I told her that I wasn't sure as the school didn't tell us. Nothing like a good contradiction right? Well, school informed us to fight the threat wasn't credible and didn't appear to originate in town and the perpetrator wasn't part of the school system but police would continue to investigate. With all that said, they plan to have facilitated lessons next week to talk to the kids about what's been happening.

Now, I feel obligated to talk to her because I don't want school to be the first place she hears of this especially since we knew about it. But how do I tell her? What can I say to make her not fear school? She already dislikes being away from us in the first place. Any help will be appreciated because I'm just at a loss. School hasn't even been back in session for a month. I really was hoping to not have to have this conversation with her at such a young age.

I'm not looking for this to turn political or into a debate about guns. Please do not suggest homeschooling as well. It's something I have been considering and looking into but I'm not ready to pull her out yet.