You’re in charge of children’s safety at a high school. What happens to you when ten of them are shot and four die? Find out today on The Tenth Man
Introduction
The parents of Ethan Crumbley are in jail. They’re accused of bad financial management, owning horses, family dysfunction and contrived offenses which allegedly caused a targeted attack.
But the administrators of Oxford Schools have been shown in violation of written policies by an investigation. A biased investigation paid for by the school’s own law firm (after the school refused free help from the state) nevertheless exposed negligence by the school.
Although the investigators promised a conclusion showing the shooting was the fault of the parents, all the facts coming to light showed the school failed to follow its own policies standard policies based upon school security practices established by the US government. What punishment have school staff received for these real infractions?
Crime Summary
On November 30, 2021 the shooter was called to the office, not as a danger to others but for suicide ideation. It's a common problem at this school, as shown in the first video of this series.
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Mom and Dad were called in and told to get the boy into therapy soon. They agreed and he went back to class. Later that day he killed four schoolmates and wounded seven other people.
From that point forward, the school, the media and the legal system have all pretended that the meeting was a chance to avert danger not to the shooter himself but to the school, although the people are not fooled.
The community has demanded accountability but a judge said you can only prosecute the person who actually pulled the trigger. So there’s no legal action being taken against the school employees. So what DID happen to the employees if anything? How did they fail and what were the consequences?
Breakdowns and Failures
Every school in America has these reports from the United States Department of Homeland Security. Gun owners are often asked in accusing tones “if guns are not the problem then how would you stop school shootings”? They calmly reply, “by following these documents and putting people in jail if they don’t. If it saves just one life, it’s worth it.”
The documents are clear. Schools need to do Threat Assessment and Intervention. Contrary to what we all think - there’s no shooter’s profile that the parents or anyone else could detect. Some shooters are loners and misfits, others are popular kids. And while there’s no “identity” there ARE BEHAVIORS where shooters always give off clues to their intentions. Always. Threat behaviors are what you look for.
But Oxford Schools had no threat assessment team, no defined threatening behaviors and no reporting threshholds. Oxford Schools did have an intervention POLICY, but they never published it, they never assigned anyone to distribute it, and none of the people who might be blamed now had any idea that it existed. Here are the details, person by person.
Parents
First the parents. Obviously the shooter’s parents committed no crimes and we’ve covered that. Beyond that, the protocols expect ALL parents to be involved in threat assessment, and to have awareness of the policy, of bully prevention, et cetera. Oxford didn’t train the Crumbleys or ANY parents> And some of those untrained parents either have bullies for children themselves OR witnessed threatening behavior. That’s how it works. Maybe THOSE parents should be the ones in jail.
Counselors
There are two counselors who were punished with the loss of their jobs. Hopkins and Ejak were the two guys who interviewed the shooter on the day of the shootings. People are calling for their heads but in reality they broke no laws OR school policy either one, instead doing their jobs exactly as defined by the school. There was no school requirement to do a Threat Assessment and other expert counselors have said they would not have seen a threat either. Still they WERE punished.
Actually it appears that ALL the schools counselors were replaced – all but one anyway.
Who Was Blamed
While Hopkins and Ejak were slightly punished without being officially blamed, three other people were blamed without being punished. These were the three higher-ups who were supposedly responsible for not implementing the school’s Threat Assessment policy.
These three were Throne, Sweat and Lemond. How can all THREE be to blame?! Throne was the superintendent; Sweat and Lemond were his assistants. Throne’s job was to make sure that someone, possibly Sweat or Lemond put a plan in place. But blaming three people still makes no sense. Either Throne ordered it done, and ONE - not BOTH - of them failed, or he never ordered it done and HE failed. So what’s going on here with three people blamed?
According to the investigation two of these people were not even interviewed. No surprise – nearly half of the school staff refused to participate in the investigation, an option not extended to the Crumbleys. Further, none of the people who DID participate took any ownership of the Threat Assessment process, so the Investigators went “one potato two potato” and landed on Throne, Sweat and Lemond.
That’s a career-ender for those three, right? Well not really. The bought-and-paid-for investigation carefully selected three people to blame without actually punishing them. You see, Sweat had retired months and months before the shooting took place. She’s enjoying her golden years – you’d refuse to be interviewed too. She probably didn’t even answer the phone.
Throne, similarly had announced his planned retirement more than a month before the shooting, citing all the stress the Covid shutdowns had put on him. (An important factor also in the mood of the shooter, per the investigation) Throne stayed on temporarily but he too was long gone when the results were released.
As for Lemond, she didn’t retire but she was gone as well. In an amazing coincidence, she had taken a new job by the time the investigation was released. She’s now the training director with the contractor that supplied weapons detection equipment to the school, too little too late. Just some of the free stuff you get when your school kills kids.
Guidepost Solutions made their whitewashing too obvious. They should have just blamed one person and it would have looked better. Instead, these “investigators” surgically identified the three people whom they could blame without adversely impacting them in any practical sense.
Fine
And then there’s Fine. Not blamed and not punished, she’s still working at the school - the only member of the counseling staff still there. Odd. The bully prevention coordinator, she’s the single school officer whose defined role could have kept the situation from boiling over in the first place had she not been distracted from her job. Not a collateral role like with the counselors but her full-time job.
Student shooters always act on grievances against their classmates, and against bullying much of the time. Yet Fine was not penalized in any way despite Oxford’s grim history and previous deaths.
And despite the fact two of the ten student victims targeted by the shooter were members of her team.
When parents asked if she had met with the shooter the school said “No, it was two other counselors meeting with him on November 30.” That’s a true but odd response. She WAS one of the pair meeting with him the day before.
It’s as if she has something on the school and is planning a multi-million dollar lawsuit herself. We’ll talk about that next episode.
Wrap-up
How ignorant we can be! Watching while the authorities punish gun owners who mind their own business and counselors who just do their jobs. There is NOTHING in the Homeland Security guidelines that points to gun laws as a solution or gun owners as a problem, but that’s the first place the politicians look.
And the counselors are overworked. They let all the Oxford guys go find new jobs, when the state of Michigan is in nearly last place – 49th – for the number of counselors per student. Michigan High School counselors have caseloads more than double the number of students they’re supposed to – 650 kids on average – and are assigned other non-counseling duties as well. There are plenty of trained counselors available, but the state just doesn’t support any positions for them. It’s easier for Lansing politicians to enact useless gun laws and call it a day. Remember – they never promise more safety – they only promise more gun laws.
Useless gun laws and winning election will be covered again soon, here on The Tenth Man.
