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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A group of parents of children who witnessed the shooting are intending to sue. One allegation is that a kid warned the teacher, and she told the kid to sit down and be quiet. Now the vice principal is blaming the teacher too.

https://www.wavy.com/news/investigative/attorney-student-reported-gun-to-teacher-before-she-was-shot-by-6-year-old/[/quote]
Haven’t other articles all along said that the teacher that was shot and another teacher reported the gun and the threats that day? The half assed search happened because his threats were reported to the administration.

I’m all for parents also suing the school system because this child should never have been allowed to be mainstreamed. [b]But claiming the injured teacher ignored a child’s concern is a bridge too far.[/b][/quote]

Yes. I’m actually shocked that the parents and their counsel are saying that. I’m just livid, I can’t help it.

I do think there’s potentially some connection there with why the parents haven’t been exposed. Richneck is a majority Black student population, and Zwerner is white. I know that on other sites like Lipstick Alley posters confidently asserted that the shooter had to be Caucasian because the ‘plan’ and ‘accommodations’ were too crazy to be believed. Someone copied a comment to that site from Reddit - who knows - claiming the boy and his family are black, that this is known throughout the area. I think the desire to not stigmatize or participate in the school to prison pipeline meant that the teacher was seen as not fundamentally important by the admin, the guilty as sin parents, and some other parents in the community.

Has anyone [i]ever[/i] run across the kind of accommodation described here? Has anyone [i]ever[/i] had parents effectively refuse special educational environments for a kid who showed that level of violence and predation by kindergarten? Whipping kids? Sexual touching of a little girl who fell on the playground? I have never even heard of this before, and I have DC and am a teacher’s kid. [/quote]

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