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[quote=Anonymous]This kid choked his kindergarten teacher with his bare hands in previous year. Including hitting her, hitting/spitting on the TA, punching the counselor, twisting the security officer’s arms, using profanity in the classroom, etc. No one in administration cared about any of that. The only reason he was removed was because the K teacher told Parker she would leave if he was returned to her classroom after they attempt to put him back into her class.

When she personally filed a report and delivered it to the principal Goodman and AP Parker after she was choked and had to be recurred by her teaching assistant, Parker ignored her and Goodman told her to “ Prioritize.” There have been long running patterns at this school. K teacher had to give them an ultimatum about quitting in order for them to remove that child.

When he returned the year after, he continued this behavior. It is not clear whether Abby knew about how he choked his former teacher at Richneck. Because that is attempted murder. In first grade the year of the incident, he choked another KID. He choked another student in class and NO ONE did anything about it. They didn’t care about attempted murder of the K teacher (he hated her too he hated all his teachers), and they didn’t care about attempted murder of another kid!

In fact a few weeks prior to the events his intervention team even decided to lengthen his hours at school from 3 hours to about 6 hours citing improved behaviors. Then a few days before the incident the intervention team stated that his parents do not need to accompany him anymore. The 2nd day they implemented this plan, he slammed Abby’s phone to the floor and cracked it, calling her a “b——.” He was suspended for 1 day. The day he came back from the suspension was the day she got shot.

The school failures began long before the shooting. 2 choking incidents were treated as nothing. Even then he was allowed to run behind a building during recess outside of the teachers’ sight and that’s when he threatened a kid from the lead teacher’s room, showing him the bullets. The lead teacher’s saw her student shaking and scared after recess and convinced him to tell her what happened. This is when he shared that he saw bullets and had been threatened with the gun. This is the 3rd eyewitness report that day, after 2 other kids ran to tell the reading teacher that morning. The kids were failed all around. There were 3 of them and they all made reports to a trusted adult and no one took action to remove the threat or remove the kids away from danger. A kid saw bullets and they still weren’t in crisis mode.

If an adult had found and taken away the gun before he shot Zwerner, that kid would most likely get a few days of suspension and then go right back to the classroom based on how he kept on returning after 2 attempts at choking others. It would happen at some point even if this incident had been prevented. The admins don’t care about the danger he poses to the other people. They’re not in the same room with him all day long or have to teach him. Why would they care?

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