In a Dec. 19 letter to the director of the STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, the district official said the anonymous parent raised 'concerns about student violence due to a high-pressure environment' and referred to the massacre at a nearby school in 1999. The district official'
- Five months before Tuesday's deadly shooting at a Colorado school, a district official urged the school's director to investigate allegations of student bullying and violence by a parent who feared they could lead to the next"Columbine."
The district official's letter, seen by Reuters, said the parent told Douglas County School Board of Education Director Wendy Vogel by telephone that"many students are suicidal and violent in school. Several students have reported sexual assault and nothing is being done." Douglas County School District official Daniel Winsor's letter to STEM Executive Director Penelope Eucker asked the school to investigate the parent's"very serious" concerns, determine their"legitimacy, and"take any remedial action that may be appropriate."
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