"After the deadly Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., national media focused largely on a handful of student activists, leaving it to victims’ parents to unravel why the slaughter happened.Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 killed, conducted his own investigation to uncover the roots of what he calls the most avoidable mass murder in American history.
He and Max Eden are co-authors of “Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students.”
This adapted excerpt, based on never-before-released educational records of the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, shows the Broward County school district knew full well about his obsession with guns and murder — and then let him practice shooting at school.
...For the next calendar year, Cruz was suspended every other day.
Why did the school allow him to remain enrolled despite his daily, deranged behavior for a full year?
Not by negligence, but by policy.
...Nikolas Cruz couldn’t possibly have made himself any clearer.
Broward schools staff knew exactly who and what he was.
Yet they not only allowed him to enroll in Marjory Stoneman Douglas, they literally gave him an air gun, shaped like an AR-15, and let him practice shooting.
This may sound astonishing.
But it was all according to policy.
The official review of Nikolas Cruz’s educational history registered no objections to anything you just read..."
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