Dr. Ebony Parker, the assistant principal at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, resigned, district spokesperson Michelle Price confirmed to The Post.
has resigned as allegations surface the administration failed to respond when warned about the armed student three times on the day of the shooting, The Post has learned. , resigned, district spokesperson Michelle Price confirmed. Parker could not be reached for comment Wednesday.on Jan. 6. Three school employees had warned the administration that the 6-year-old boy had a gun in the hours before the incident, Zwerner’s lawyer Diana Toscano said Wednesday.
Toscano said the 25-year-old teacher had warned the school at 11:15 a.m. the boy threatened to beat up one of his peers. “However, the forced resignation of one of the administrators from Richneck does not resolve the failure of the district as a whole to put procedures in place to prevent this from happening again.”
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