there was a report in an OP the shooter had attended that school. There's also an OP reporting the shooter had a confrontation with four officials at the school a day or two before the shooting. Three of the four officials were killed.

That would be SOP at any school. A crazed person comes to a school one day, you have security there for a few days afterwards.

It is very helpful in sorting through the misinformation. I linked it downthread but here it is again:

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Our media so sucks.

regarding both your observations.

This can help us decide for ourselves how factual and unbiased the article is.

There was no connection between Nancy Lanza and the school. Adam Lanza had no known connection either, except that he might have attended there when he was younger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting

You are right about commenting how FUBAR the media has been on this one

Either she worked there or she didn't work there.

Either the staff knew her or did NOT know her.


This ( part of it, anyway) is not complicated.

I've seen a couple interviewed about the shooting. But if that school had 600 kids, there had to have been 30 or 40 on staff. The district must have clamped down pretty hard on media requests.

Are you saying people are afraid to answer that simple question for fear of repercussions from higher-ups?

What other reason could there be for 30+ people to NOT be talking to the media? And you know they're being deluged with requests. I would imagine some are traumatized and don't want to talk to the media. But I also know there are likely to be several who would gladly do so, and probably want to.

School districts are notoriously strict about employees talking to the media. I would imagine that some of the staff members at this school are not willing to talk to reporters but I also think several would probably willingly do so, thinking it may help. But their employer has told them not to do so.

School district administrators are probably overwhelmed. But the teachers and other staff - no. What do you think they would be doing?

The school staff is similarly grieving. It's not the same thing, but I think this is a legitimate factor.

Another thing is, there are good reasons for any organization to channel information through a spokesperson at a time like this. I think you make a good point, though.

Do you know all former employees of your present employer?

point.

My husband's best friend grew up in Newtown and did not attend Sandy Hook but played some sports games there as a kid. Newtown is not that big. There was only 4 elementary schools there.

According to the mother's ex-sister-in-law, she had some kind of issue with the school board about the school's plans for him (no idea what's meant by that) and pulled him out of school to home school him sometime around the 10th grade. The ex-sister-in-law also said that at some time she worked at the school as a classroom aide.

Parents sometimes disagree with programming recommendations made by the school for kids with disabilities. I'm a special ed teacher and the kids I work with are much more likely to be homeschooled than the kids without disabilities. At least that's typical where I teach. I'm not sure about CT.

Yesterday's NY Times had descriptions provided by HS classmates.

He's third from the right in this high school yearbook picture.


That's a big home school.

In fact it is encouraged by most public school districts, to prevent kids from being too isolated.

Something smells fishy. I know the mother had "problems" with the school board. So much so that she home schooled her son (the shooter). The reporters need to dig deeper into this. Something is being covered up.

first we need a investigative reporter. The real back story is our MEDIA's lack of reporting skill sets. Notice the perfect make-up and blow-combed hair styles. Proper clothing color balance. Right backdrop or staging. When the story broke,CNN and some backwater hack newspaper wanted the feed and nothing more,just through shit to the public. What a shame we came this far and the facts are still made from whole cloth of YELLOW JOURNALISM.

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although the website was probably outdated for this school year because a couple of the slain teachers were not mentioned on there.

Edit: The website appears to be current at the time of the shootings. To recap from the best of my knowledge: A principal (Dawn Hocksprung), a school psychologist (Mary Sherlach), two teacher assistants (Rachel Davino and Anne Marie Murphy), one teacher (Victoria Soto), and one permanent substitute teacher (Lauren Rousseau) were the adult victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School, not counting the killer himself.


Nancy Lanza wasn't on any staff roster and didn't have to work anyway.

I've covered a few chaotic scenes, but 72 hours on...something is raising my cackles. First 36 hours, sure. I get it.

Nancy Lanza was never on it, so she was not a teacher there.

Read my post upthread. Two were teacher assistants, and many school websites don't list teacher aides or assistants on their websites. Often, they are part-time classified employees.

Another one was a permanent substitute teacher. Same thing. The regular teacher was listed.

Lanza wasn't a teacher, period.

and son by now, other family members. Why do none of them seem to know what this woman did with herself, beyond buy guns and hire a landscaper?

and in the process end up embarrassing themselves (actually no, they are beyond shame)