A Patient’s Best Interest: The Case of a Student in a Context of School Safety and Life on an American High School Campus, Revisited
It was difficult for Dr. Pattman, an educator for 22 years, to accept that so many students have to live with such a possibility every day that they set foot on an American high school campus. She said that she and her daughter were going to be able to soldier on. She spoke on Wednesday afternoon with a resolve that seemed laced with resignation.
Macey’s friend, a fellow freshman, had been shot in the shoulder, and Macey was worried about her. The girl told her mother she wasn’t going to go back to school and be shot.
About an hour later, the mother and daughter came together. A friend had picked Macey up from Apalachee and taken her to a convenience store, where her mother was waiting. They hugged each other and cried.
Her school went into a mode of lock down. Her students hid in the corner. Lights out. Quiet. They were there from 11 a.m. to about 1:30 p.m.
She said most of it comes from not living in fear. “Not just in schools, but in grocery stores, in churches. I’m almost to the point where I feel that no place is exempt.”
She said that she was responsible for keeping her students safe while she continued to communicate with her daughter.
A Palachee High School shooting: Mason Schermerhorn, 19, and his father, Jason Briscoe, 44, died in hospital
The Apalachee High School shooting in Winder Ga. on Wednesday was the worst case of school violence in Georgia’s history. At least nine people were injured.
Two students were identified as dead by the authorities. The educators killed were identified as Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie, officials said. The names were not confirmed by the authorities.
“Those that are deceased are heroes in my book,” said Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Those in the hospital recovering are heroes in my opinion.
Mason Schermerhorn was described by friends of his family as a lighthearted teenager who liked spending time with his family, reading, telling jokes, playing video games and visiting Walt Disney World. He started at the school recently.
Doug Kilburn, who has known the mother of a man for 10 years, said that the man enjoyed life. He had an optimistic attitude about everything.
Mr. Briscoe contacted the mother of a student who was at the high school and asked if everything was ok. She told him that Mason was gone.
The 14-year-old student who shot and killed another student will be charged with murder, officials said. Students heard gunfire as they barricaded themselves in classrooms.
A math special education teacher and the school’s golf coach were injured in the shooting. His daughter said in a post on Wednesday that he was shot in the foot and hip and shattered his hip bone.