Educators Helping Students Come To Grips With War

By Ann Bradley and Debra Viadero

As the long-dreaded fighting began in the Persian Gulf last week, schools struggled to help a generation of children that has never known war come to grips with the fast-unfolding events in the Middle East.

Across the nation, schools devoted moments of silence to thoughts of American servicemen and women; students staged protests and arranged prayer services and blood drives.

Schools and other support agencies, meanwhile, responded with an outpouring of offers of counseling for anxious students and families...