12-year-old middle school student armed with a handgun killed 8th grade math teacher landsberry and two classmates before takes his life. it happened yesterday in nevada. the teacher, a former marine, hailed as a hero for trying to stop the early morning rampage. shortly before 7:15, the student arrived on cool grounds. he shot a student in the shoulder. this occurred near the north hallway of the school. he proceeded southbound and encountered the teacher, mr. landsberry, on the basketball court. they were actually working towards each other. the chief will elaborate on that shortly. the suspect shot the teacher, you continued southbound, shot a second student in the abdomen, turned around walked northbound
killing himself. there are developments. i talk to a girl who knew the young gunman and saw it all. stephanie, another gruesome school shooting in america. tell me the latest? what we have learned tonight, piers, is everything was over in just 3 minutes. by the time the police got on to campus. school hadn t started yet. everything was done. in that time, two students were shot. one in the abdomen. one in the shoulder. the other thing that happened that was the most devastating. the loss of a beloved math teacher, mike landsberry served several tours in afghanistan and came back to nevada to teach 8th grade math where he was very much loved in the job he was doing there. had a website for the students to engage with the student and help them. little bit more we are learning about the teacher tonight, piers. what do we know about the shooter? how old he was? how old the victims were outside of the math teacher? yes, the shooter was 13.
just 3 minutes. by the time the police got on to campus. school hadn t started yet. everything was done. in that time, two students were shot. one in the abdomen. one in the shoulder. the other thing that happened that was the most devastating. the loss of a beloved math teacher, mike landsberry served several tours in afghanistan and came back to nevada to teach 8th grade math where he was very much loved in the job he was doing there. had a website for the students to engage with the student and help them. little bit more we are learning about the teacher tonight, piers. what do we know about the shooter? how old he was? how old the victims were outside of the math teacher? yes, the shooter was 13. what we believe, and we are still trying to get the details together, is that after he shot those three people, he then turned the gun on himself. took his own life. that s what we are hearing at this point. the two individuals that were shot were 12 years old.
it s the time of year where students are studying for this state tests designed to see how much they should know. turns out most of those tests are not as rigorous as they should be. soledad o brien looks at this issue in a new documentary airing this week called don t fail me: education in america. were you lying to parents? absolutely. about how well they were doing? in one case, 8th grade math, we were telling 88% they were sufficient. what was the real number? 22%. and you just say, look, you may feel good for a minute if you think that, but you re not doing these kids any favor by lying to them like that. high scores on easy state tests made tennessee seem like an educational power house. the truth, tennessee was one of the lowest performing states in
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