Despite a raft of new security mandates, gun violence continues to hit campuses with schools struggling in their role as a battleground in society’s...
Recent shootings impacting North Texas high schools highlight the safety issues that still exist on campuses.
Craig Miller, a former Dallas ISD and city police leader, drew a distinction between the recent violence in North Texas and mass casualty events at Robb Elementary, Parkland and Sandy Hook. “If there is a beef going on outside of the campus, you want kids to have a relationship with that law enforcement officer,” Miller said. “That information is so critical. … We’ve got to have kids that come forward and tell us what’s going on, so that we can help them.”“If lawmakers think they checked a box on school safety last session, we should be appalled at how low the bar is,” Texas AFT spokeswoman Nicole Hill said.
Barnes was shot “up to five or six” times, Arlington police Chief Al Jones said during a news conference. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Jones said.Authorities were working to determine a motive, but police believe a 17-year-old targeted Barnes. Both teens were students, police said.
The anger bled into Thursday’s DISD school board meeting. Wilmer-Hutchins parent Curtis described the terror of receiving texts from her child about a shooting. Beyond safe gun storage, the researcher urged adults to teach teenagers more strategies for dealing with conflict resolution and to invest more in crisis intervention.
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