Message #10827

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My youngest daughter (5th grade - 10 yrs old) comes home almost every day with some lurid tale she heard in school about anthrax and what it can do to you and where it could turn up next.  She's pretty frightened about it.  She doesn't watch the news either but hears most of the stuff from her friends.  I tell her not to worry about it but I remember back in the early sixties when I was starting school and all the bomb drills we went through.  It is enough to frighten a child who doesn't really understand what's going on in the "big" world.  I certainly hope it's not her teacher telling the students stories. (I'll find out, parent teacher conference coming up at the end of this week!)