MSD Safety Commission Member Max Schachter Says Parents Of Boy Who Brought Gun To School Need To Be Held Accountable

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – On Wednesday morning, a weapon was discovered successful a 10-year-old student’s backpack successful Fort Lauderdale.

The weapon was not loaded and cipher was hurt, but it inactive caused a scare for parents and students of Walker Elementary School.

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“I was trying to spell home. I was scared,” said 1 student.

The schoolhouse was enactment connected a “Code Yellow Lockdown,” meaning everyone connected field had to structure successful place. No 1 was allowed successful oregon out.

Even aft the thread cleared, immoderate parents said they were frustrated they weren’t notified.

Max Schachter, whose lad Alex was murdered successful the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, said schools are present required to notify parents successful a timely mode nether the “Parents Need to Know Law.”

Broward Schools told CBS4 that genitor notifications were issued during the lockdown and erstwhile instrumentality enforcement cleared the threat. The territory added it’s important parents person the close interaction accusation connected record and the preferred method of contact.

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While the Broward State Attorney’s Office said they won’t criminalize the child, immoderate parents deliberation the 10-year-old’s parents should beryllium held accountable.

Schachter agrees but added that the 10-year-old’s intentions substance and that the pupil needs to beryllium checked connected too.

“Was it a mistake?” Schachter wondered. “We request to recognize the volition of the idiosyncratic and spot if there’s inactive a threat.

Schachter is 1 of 3 parents connected the Marjory Stoneman Douglass Public Safety Commission. At the past gathering connected September 27, a disturbing revelation of an audit of Broward Schools from December 2019 to March 2020.

“We recovered a batch of deficiencies successful the menace appraisal process,” Schachter said. “Sixty percent of medium- and high-level threats did not person an accompanying monitoring plan.”

Examples of a monitoring program Schachter said see checking that student’s backpack successful the aboriginal and making definite the child’s location concern is safe. Another enactment point is to cheque the student’s disciplinary background.

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“It’s precise puzzling [and] upsetting to spot things that should’ve been fixed aft Parkland are inactive not fixed,” Schachter said.

Frances Wang