WPLN News Archive; Wright Response to California School Shooting (Adrienne) 3 7 01; News Archive 2/13/01-3/7/01

fear no fear and worry teachers talked about in the hall's students asked questions in class administrators rethought plans of action i feel heavy this mornin massive i did arrest last night because is there in san diego but he could be here in nashville right school principal katherine taylor you look at that yesterday it and you knew that the administration had a plan you know they had everything laid out they practiced it the kid said they had practice it but guess what when when that happened the play and just basically went out the windows and you wonder as a bill the pros want you know you practice the practice to preach to practice and then hear on the news of the key it say they would just talk to this key and they would the tall that makes you as a leader would these key is not kill me only two out of the four students interviewed at wright said they'd report similar situation bryan's an eighth grader he says the news of the shooting surprised in there just like a regular day and a kid brings a gun to school period you have people just gotten scared you'll see you again

and all that other stuff and writing on the wall the bombing the killing her special term jerome or eighth grader samantha says she's worried she says the two biggest concerns are drugs and school violence people i'm a vegetarian and delay today not knowing who to turn to in this kind of situation worries school guidance counselor nancy reagan she's concerned about how seriously schools consider threats i think that students hear us say over daily announcements that they should report things that that don't look right or don't feel right i think they hear us saying that but i don't think they see us walking that i don't think they see us as quickly as they should be able to do many times

doors are closed people are gone and there's no one in this and they don't know which they should go to their teachers their principal many people out of that that i think at some point they just give up on talking to somebody because they don't think they can find someone to talk to a seventh grade teacher vaulted itself worries that students are desensitized to violence urges discussing now that another student joking about flying in libya and to invest it has reported it and we would say in this wonderful and then they need to crack down on joking just like they do with the airport wright is one of the few middle schools with the security systems cameras are placed their due to its large size but already there are enough to cover the new wing and the only places to view the monitors are in the principal's office is paris of the west visits right off that is the treasure the pto she says she's concerned about school violence in general but not about it happening here in the past few

years matches made a concerted effort to get students to report violent ice dancing a weapons hotline teen living teaching the summer talked to students every day about making appropriate decisions like most people she wants to know what went wrong and santana or intervention it helped and who was responsible for the gun position can't let the news affect her personally the dance comes to republicans and hopefully we're proactive know and we see on top of it and we listened to what kids are saying i think many times the uneasy because the statistics showing a decrease in a greater safety thread safety school safety principal katherine gallagher hopes the rest of her students would do the same she thinks about the california shooter and what might get stopped him he gave them

no warnings and knoth warnings says solis they heard there some can a plan or somebody should've took some kind of action for national public radio i'm at an outlaw