Bend-La Pine Schools Recounts Response to Silver Rail Shooting

At the first Bend-La Pine Schools Board of Directors meeting since the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary on Oct. 15, district staff provided a second-by-second timeline of the attack and the response — and explained how decisions were made in the chaotic aftermath as families attempted to reunite with their children. District officials and attendees became emotional at times during a nearly two-hour presentation Tuesday night. Parents followed by continuing calls for action — both on school safety and support for vulnerable students — and critiques of the district’s return-to-school process. “Every morning when I drop my daughter off at school, I think about those families,” Marie Dos Santos, a mother at R.E. Jewell Elementary, a school about a mile-and-a-half from Silver Rail, said during Tuesday’s board meeting.

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