'More needs to be done.' State board of education calls for independent review of Oxford HS shooting
The Michigan State Board of Education voted to call upon the Michigan Legislature to require and fund an independent review of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting. The Michigan State Board of Education has voted to require and fund an independent review of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting. The vote follows requests from parents of four students killed in the shooting, Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, Madisyn Baldwin and Justin Shilling, who were also killed. The board members also requested that existing funding for children's mental health and school safety be recurring. They also suggested that suicide and threat assessments be part of every school emergency operation plan and that threat assessment training be available. The shooter, James and Jennifer Crumbley, was convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter and each sentenced to 10-15 years in prison.
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The Michigan State Board of Education voted to call upon the Michigan Legislature to require and fund an independent review of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting.
The vote, which took place on Tuesday, comes after requests from parents of Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, Madisyn Baldwin and Justin Shilling – the four students who were killed.
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As part of the vote, board members also requested that the legislature to make previously approved funding for children's mental health and school safety recurring. That includes requesting that suicide and threat assessments be part of every school emergency operation plan and make threat assessment training available.
Parents of the four teens shared their thoughts at a May 21 board work sessions after being invited by State Superintendent Dr. Michael F. Rice.
“Parents of Oxford students who died in this terrible tragedy have made it clear they want an independent state review of the shooting and events before and after,” State Board of Education President Dr. Pamela Pugh said in a statement. “I’m very grateful and thankful we were able to hear from the parents of the victims of Oxford. We owe it to the parents to do what we can to have the mass shooting thoroughly reviewed so that schools can learn from what happened and Oxford parents can get more answers.”
“Much has been done in the last two and a half years to improve school safety and children’s mental health in the state,” Rice said in a statement. “More needs to be done. Large increases in funding for school safety and children’s mental health, more than 1,000 additional helping professionals in schools across the state, new gun safety laws, and increased attention to children’s mental health make for safer and healthier schools for students and staff. That said, more needs to be done, and the state board’s resolution is in the spirit of continuing to improve the safety and security of our schools.”
The shooting in November 2021 killed the four students, injured six others and a teacher. The shooter pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were each convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter in the case this year.
They were each sentenced to 10-15 years in prison after the conviction.
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