The crowd of at least a couple hundred people overflowed into three additional rooms for a session that stretched past three hours.
Tuesday’s school board meeting was the first opportunity for public venting since the shooting of first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner on Jan. 6. Police said her six-year-old student fired a single round as Zwerner was in the middle of a lesson. The bullet struck her hand and chest, and she was rushed to the hospital, while the boy was taken into custody. A motive remains under investigation. The school has been closed since the shooting, and no timeline was given for reopening.
At one dramatic moment, a parent of a child in the alleged shooter’s classroom came to the lectern and struggled to compose her emotions before speaking. In response, the chairman of the school board, Lisa R. Surles-Law, stepped down from the dais and stood beside her as she recounted how frightening the shooting was for her daughter, who the parent said had been bullied by students in the class.“She’s terrified because the person who was advocating for her got hurt. She got hurt,” she said.
He said a survey conducted last May of teachers and staff found that 60 percent of respondents said building administrators address negative student behaviors, and 69 percent said school administrators work to maintain a safe learning environment. But more fundamentally, a series of speakers said metal detectors are not enough to address the district’s underlying problems.
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