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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nashville-school-shooting-victims_n_64220934e4b0b8ee3bd3d57f
Victims And Shooter Identified In Nashville School Killings

Authorities identified the three children and three adults who were shot to death at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday ― a horror the city’s police chief said he hoped “would never, ever come here in the city.”

The student victims at The Covenant School were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney ― two of whom were 9 years old and one was about to turn 9. The three adults killed were 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, the 60-year-old head of school Katherine Koonce and 61-year-old custodian Mike Hill.

“When we send our kids to school or to any place of safety, we expect them to live, learn, have fun and come back from that day’s experience. We don’t anticipate things like this,” John Drake, chief of the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, said at the third press briefing of the day.
Authorities identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who was killed by officers at the scene. Police believe Hale was a former student. They said the shooter was in possession of three weapons at the school: a rifle, an assault-style pistol and a handgun. Two of the three weapons were obtained legally in the Nashville area and the shooter has “no history at all” of past criminal activities, Drake said.

Police are investigating a “manifesto” they found at Hale’s house that includes a “map drawn out of how this was all going to take place,” the chief said. There is no confirmed motive, Drake said, but police have a “theory that we may be able to talk about later.”

A two-minute video of school surveillance camera footage showed Hale driving to the school and then shooting through a glass door to enter the building.
Once inside, Hale can be seen walking through the hallways holding an assault-style weapon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/9th-grader-sues-over-pledge-165010067.html
9th grader sues over Pledge of Allegiance confrontation

The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials.

Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall.

Barnwell was then sent to the principal's office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble. The principal sent her back to class, but Barnwell said he never let her know that the teacher was wrong and she was right.

“I was completely and utterly disrespected,” Barnwell, 15, said at a news conference Thursday, according to The State newspaper. “No one has apologized, no one has acknowledged my hurt. ... The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.”

Barnwell's parents are suing the River Bluff High School teacher, the principal, Lexington School District 1, and the South Carolina Education Department in federal court, saying they violated the girl's civil rights and her First Amendment rights to both free speech or not to speak at all.

A state law passed more than 30 years ago requires public schools to play the Pledge of Allegiance at a specific time every day.

But that law also prohibits punishing anyone who refuses to recite the pledge as long as they are not disruptive or do not infringe on others.

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624 (1943), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school.