A female transportation director working in an Ohio grade school was allowed to carry a loaded gun as part of the district’s concealed-carry plan. She left the gun while going to the bathroom and also to another location outside the school whilst her grandson and the assistant transportation’s daughter were in her office.
If you read the article, the school officials either don’t know the full details or are playing dumb. And the headline the Dispatch uses is an abomination as well as it omits the fact the gun was left there by a faculty member. Please read the full article for a look at how dysfunctional a school board can be at implementing important safety policies such as conceal-carry and how easily their sloppiness can end up in tragedy.
The level of incompetence surrounding this incident is truly horrifying.
I found this news story via Tweets from Shannon Watts who is the founder of MomsDemand, a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence.
First-Grader Pointed Loaded Gun At Student In School Office, Email Says
On March 8, the child found the 9 mm handgun that his grandmother, Vicky Nelson, who is the district’s transportation director, carried at Highland Local Schools. Nelson was allowed to carry the weapon as part of the district’s concealed-carry plan adopted last year to arm administrators and select staff members to protect students from potential gun violence.
Last Thursday, school officials said Nelson had briefly gone to the restroom, leaving the gun hidden behind her desk. They said they didn’t know how long the child had access to it or whether he pointed it at anyone.
“I’m assuming that the child picked up the gun from behind the desk and had been holding it,” Superintendent Dan Freund said then.
But an email from the assistant transportation director — the parent of the classmate who was with the boy March 8 — told a different story.
“He pointed it at her and said ‘Put your hands behind your back your [sic] arrested,’” Christine Scaffidi, the assistant transportation director, told Freund in the email.
Scaffidi also said that Nelson, her boss, had not only gone to the bathroom but also driven to the nearby high school — leaving the gun unattended for up to 30 minutes. The parents had allowed their children, then both students at Highland Elementary School, to wait in the office before school started.
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