berettaprofessor
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I thought others might find this NY Post article interesting. It summarizes Andrew Pollock's new book about the murder of his daughter, Meadow, during the Parkland shooting. The full link and an excerpt are below. Pollock was able to obtain the shooter's school records. The astonishing number of issues regarding the shooter that were ignored or passed over for years in the Parkland school system is amazing to me. Even knowing from previous stories that he was a problem, I never suspected they were this frequent or deep.
The public wants to know why school shootings are on the rise? This one is pretty simple: kids who would have been removed to special schools in an instant during my school days are now mainstreamed with their future victims. I can't imagine the daily disruption and fear many of these kids have had to live with until it ended like this. Yet some of those kids, who saw all this, blame the guns, not their classmate or school system (shakes head...).
The full article link: https://nypost.com/2019/09/08/parkl...e-if-district-hadnt-enabled-deranged-student/
The public wants to know why school shootings are on the rise? This one is pretty simple: kids who would have been removed to special schools in an instant during my school days are now mainstreamed with their future victims. I can't imagine the daily disruption and fear many of these kids have had to live with until it ended like this. Yet some of those kids, who saw all this, blame the guns, not their classmate or school system (shakes head...).
The full article link: https://nypost.com/2019/09/08/parkl...e-if-district-hadnt-enabled-deranged-student/
When staff at Westglades Middle School heard that Nikolas Cruz had committed the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, some couldn’t believe it. The fact that he was a mass murderer wasn’t what surprised them, but rather the fact that he had attended that school.
“How is that possible?” one Westglades educator recalled thinking. “We did our jobs. It took forever, but we got him [to the specialized school] where he needed to go. We couldn’t believe they ever let him into [Douglas].”
Westglades students and staff had never seen anyone like Nikolas Cruz. One student, Paige, recalled the time that she met Cruz. They were standing outside their classroom waiting for their teacher to open the door, and Cruz offered her a hug, which Paige accepted. Their teacher later pulled Paige aside and warned her, “Don’t touch him. He just got caught jerking off.”
If something frustrated Cruz, he would curse and threaten anyone nearby. He would hide behind corners and doors, jump out and scream at people, and then cackle at their fear. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, he would burst into maniacal laughter.