School board meets for first time since Silver Rail shooting

At the first Bend-La Pine school board meeting since the Oct. 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary, the district’s safety team talked about the shooting and its aftermath to the board and a crowd of parents and teachers hungry for answers. The Bend-La Pine Schools safety team told the school board Tuesday night they had no protocol in place for informing families their children were dead or injured after the elementary school shooting. “We knew we had parents showing up … before we had the rest of our team there to establish structure,” said director of safety Scott Bojanowski. “We are by no means expert in that kind of parent notification. Even our student services experts, our school psychs, counselors, they don’t practice death notifications.” The district’s safety team went through a timeline of the shooting and some of the decisions made that day. After the shooting, unharmed Silver Rail students were bused to nearby Journey Church to be reunited with their families.

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