Taft High School Armed Guard Was 'Snowed In,' Not Present During Shooting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/taft-high-school-armed-guard_n_2450710.html
Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., normally has an armed guard on campus to help officials with problems that go "beyond the scope" of the administration.
But on Thursday morning, as a student showed up with a shotgun and fired two to four shots at a teacher and a classmate, the officer was nowhere to be found.
"He couldn't get there because he was snowed in," Sheriff Donny Youngblood of the Kern County Sheriff’s Department said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
........... the school notes that "two campus supervisors and a full-time sheriff’s deputy work with the assistant principal on matters of student welfare." The document also notes that the high school "contracts with the Kern County Sheriff’s Department to employ a full-time school resource officer to deal with truancies and disciplinary issues that are beyond the scope of our administration."
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