As school officials across the country weighed what to do in response to Friday’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, one Woodstock official said she just wanted to run home and hug her daughter.

The response of area school districts was fairly consistent, but Northwest Herald readers responding to the story on Facebook were divided. They differed on whether schools should address the complicated – and sometimes unanswerable – questions that students will have or leave that up to parents.

Districts 200, 158 and 155 did not formally inform their students of the shootings.