This is a highly unusual event, which is not indicative of the atmosphere that exists in our schools.

Chapman school administrators did report the incident to the district office at the end of day. (The Human Resources department) is currently investigating why school administrators from Chapman did not notify authorities immediately, which is standard procedure concerning matters like this one.

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Do they have schools?

Some schools prospered at the expense of others. We called it the 'haves' and 'have-nots.' ... There was never a sense of equity in the school district.

These schools have seen a drop in suspensions and expulsions, a rise in GPAs, a rise in test scores, and more activity in extra curricular events. They [Waite High School] were a high- poverty school that was very low-tier in academics, and now they are equal to top schools in the state.