Mary Sherlach: Sandy Hook school psychologist preparing for retirement (was she the link?)

[FarCenter]

One of the six adults to have died in the Newtown school shooting was a long-serving member of staff, familiar to students and parents.

Mary Sherlach, the 56-year-old school psychologist, had worked at the Sandy Hook elementary school for 18 years, giving support and guidance to the young children.

Sherlach's website gives evidence of a life dedicated to her profession. A master's and a sixth year professional degree from Southern Connecticut State University followed an undergraduate degree in psychology from SUNY Cortland.

Before starting at Sandy Hook in 1994, she worked in three other school districts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/15/mary-sherlach-psychologist-sandy-hook

She would have been the school psychologist when Adam Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary School. She would have been acquainted with his mother while his mother taught there. She was one of the first to die.

Did she have a relationship with Adam, and was she consulting with his mother regarding him?

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1. I don't know.

[ToxMarz]

2. You've cracked the case.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Mom didn't teach there.

The rest of it makes sense sort of. Where I teach, psychologists do educational testing and don't counsel kids. Not sure what their role is in CT.

[FarCenter]

4. She doesn't teach there now and has not for a while

She may have taught there earlier, or may have been a temp, teacher's aide, or volunteer.

They also tried parochial school.

Kateleen Soy, now an undergraduate at Hofstra University in New York, said she was in Lanza's seventh-grade class at St. Rose of Lima School in Newtown.

She recalled that he joined the class after the school year began and left before school got out for the summer.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,3124907,full.story