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Teacher shot by 6-year-old student files lawsuit against school administrators for lack of action leading up to shooting

Teacher shot by 6-year-old student files lawsuit against school administrators for lack of action leading up to shooting

Transcripts for CNN CNN This Morning 20240604 13:29:00

Child whose son was in the same class as the shooter, thomas britton, in whether he has confidence in sending his child back to the school. here s what he had to say. i think with new administration, this administration that listens to teacher, listens to concerns, and acts on those concerns, you know, treat threats as credible until they re not. not the other way of, you have to do it before the threat is credible. this is probably going to be the safest school in the area for a good long while, kind of an ironic twist. so, i have no misgivings about sending them back. and we ve also learned that the principal who was here at richneck on the day of the shooting, her name, brianna foster newton has been reassigned to another job in the school system. school officials not telling us exactly what that job is. but she is no longer here. the vice principal had already previously resigned after the shooting. and that s what parents told us over the last few weeks, brian. they felt lik

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20240604 14:32:00

Elementary school we are talking about, here you go. as of now police are on campus to assist in the transition, we ve seen several officers here already this morning. students are provided with clear backpacks to carry around, they are not permitted to bring their regular backpacks to school. there are two state of the art metal detectors now installed on campus. visitors are now limited for the first week of instruction and we re told that if parents want to walk their children all the way to their classrooms, they are now subject to being searched. as of as for the people who are have been widely accused of presiding over this complete breakdown of security and failing to protect their teachers before the shooting, george parker iii the superintendent of the newport news public schools was ousted from his job but he is still going to get about a half a million dollars in severance pay, two years of his regular salary. the principal here, brianna foster newton who was the princip

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown 20240604 23:17:00

. in new port news, virginia, students and faculty at richneck elementary will head back to school for the first time since a 6-year-old shot his teacher in the classroom. two people who won t be there are the school s principal and vice principal. the principal has been reassigned and the vice principal has quit. polo sandoval joins us now. what do we know about tomorrow s cha changes? reporter: i can tell you some of the parents are forced to make a very difficult decision. some tell me that they are still not convinced that the school system has done enough to restore confidence in the ability or at least they know that they can keep their children safe. so, there s one parent in particular told me their child will be staying home. as you mentioned, the principal, brianna foster newton, he has been reassigned to a position at the district, though the