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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
‘God, This Just Makes You Anxious.’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So I’ve been a bit behind in following some of the news stories lately, especially the chilling weapons incident at Whitewater High School. Here’s Bridget Gutierrez’s most recent story as well as an earlier story about how officials got a tip in June about the student having weapons in his car.
Obviously it’s easy to say now that school officials should have acted on the tip before the first day of school. If you were in the position of the school resource officer, would you have acted immediately, even though it was the summer? As a spokeswoman said, it was an “unsubstantiated tip,” and officials didn’t think they could drive to the kid’s house during the summer based on a tip. It’s been a long time since Columbine. Afterwards, people said, “How could no one have known?”
This was a kid who played in the band, got good grades and was headed toward college. Kids don’t always scream ALIENATION with their attitudes and their wardrobe choices like the Columbine kids did. Would you really have followed up on that tip?
