Vickie Shufton has worked in public education for 35 years--first in Nevada as a teacher of emotionally disabled adolescents, then in Kern county where she trained teachers to work with the same population, and finally, now, in Massachusetts as a school psychologist. In 2001, her post-graduate work focused on student-perpetrated acts of lethal violence, and how to prevent such acts from occurring. This work continues to the present day. I intend to retire a year from now, leaving this critical work to others who have the youth and energy to carry it forward.
