A Newport News police officer is seen outside Richneck Elementary School as students return nearly a month after a shooting
Administrators searched children’s lunches with handheld metal detectors and distributed see-through plastic backpacks. The school also installed new doors and ‘state-of-the-art’ metal detectors at entranceways.Additionally, the school said it would limit visitors, including parents. If parents do want to walk their children to class, they will be required to present a photo ID and will be searched.
The reopening of the school follows weeks of criticism from parents and staff members, who question how the tragedy was allowed to happen.warned about the child three times‘On that day, over the course of a few hours, three different times — three times — school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people,’ Zwerner’s attorney Diane Toscano said. ‘But the administration could not be bothered.