Whistleblowers: School Board Cowardice in Oxford HS Shooting

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Ex-board members: Ethan Crumbley should've been sent home — but Oxford H.S. ignored policy

Tresa Baldas
Lily Altavena
Detroit Free Press
November 28, 2022

The morning Ethan Crumbley drew a picture of a gun and blood on his math homework sheet, and scrawled the words "The thoughts won't stop, help me," he should have been sent home under the Oxford school district's own threat assessment policy — only it was never used and no one was ever trained for it, two whistleblowers allege.

Instead, they say, school officials caved to Ethans' parents' demands that their son be returned to class that morning — when officials had the authority to remove him — and bloodshed followed: The teenager shot and killed four classmates and injured six other students and a teacher at Oxford High.

According to the whistleblowers, it was the second time in 24 hours that school officials mishandled Crumbley, alleging the teen also should have been sent home the day before the shooting, when he was caught researching bullets on his cellphone in class. Under the district's policy, they say, such activity is grounds for removal.

Whistleblowers quit Oxford school board, frustrated by district

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Nearly one year after the deadly Oxford school shooting, two former school board members spoke out Monday about what they allege are key missteps by the district before Crumbley carried out the Nov. 30 shooting using a gun his parents bought him as an early Christmas present.

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I hope their liability insurance is paid IP because it sounds like folks certainly have grounds to sue. A tragic failure to do their duty.

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