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Why Meadow died : the people and policies that created the Parkland shooter and endanger America's students / Andrew Pollack and Max Eden.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Post Hill Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxv, 305 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1642932191
  • 9781642932195
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword: "My sister" -- Preface: "Daddy, keep going" -- Picking up the pieces. A teacher survivor ; An immigrant father ; An education expert ; A student journalist -- Cruz control. An exceptional student ; Going to MSD ; Leaving MSD ; Returning to MSD -- The politically correct school district. From Broward to your school ; The underreporting ; The broken PROMISE ; The "so-called tragedy" -- The fight to #Fixit. Graduation week ; Flip the board! ; Free campaign ads ; The election -- Epilogue: You have to #Fixit.
Summary: Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was murdered in the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, teamed up with education expert Max Eden to find out how the Parkland shooter slipped through the cracks. They argue that the policies pioneered in Broward plague American schools, and make school shootings more likely.Summary: Meadow Pollack was murdered during the Parkland school shooting. Her father teamed up with Eden, a leading education expert, to launch his own investigation into questions about school safety-- questions that matter for parents, teachers, and schoolchildren nationwide. There's a reason why the Parkland shooter slipped through the cracks. It was the most avoidable mass murder in American history... and the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school. -- adapted from jacket and Amazon.com info
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Parkland School Massacre did not have to happen. And the policies which made it inevitable are being forced into public schools across America.



"After my sister Meadow was murdered on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about the style of rifle that the killer used. All clickbait and politics. No answers or justice. That wasn't good enough for me or my dad. My dad is a real tough guy, but Meadow had him wrapped around her little finger. He'd do anything she wanted, and she'd want him to find every answer so that this never happens again. So, my dad teamed up with one of America's leading education experts to launch his own investigation. We've found the answers to the questions no one cared to ask, but you need to know them because they matter for your children. If one single adult in the Broward County School District made one responsible decision about the Parkland shooter, then my sister would be alive. But every bad decision they made makes total sense once you understand the awful policies, which started here in Broward and have spread to your school."



--Hunter Pollack, "Foreword"

Includes bibliographical references.

Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was murdered in the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, teamed up with education expert Max Eden to find out how the Parkland shooter slipped through the cracks. They argue that the policies pioneered in Broward plague American schools, and make school shootings more likely.

Foreword: "My sister" -- Preface: "Daddy, keep going" -- Picking up the pieces. A teacher survivor ; An immigrant father ; An education expert ; A student journalist -- Cruz control. An exceptional student ; Going to MSD ; Leaving MSD ; Returning to MSD -- The politically correct school district. From Broward to your school ; The underreporting ; The broken PROMISE ; The "so-called tragedy" -- The fight to #Fixit. Graduation week ; Flip the board! ; Free campaign ads ; The election -- Epilogue: You have to #Fixit.

Meadow Pollack was murdered during the Parkland school shooting. Her father teamed up with Eden, a leading education expert, to launch his own investigation into questions about school safety-- questions that matter for parents, teachers, and schoolchildren nationwide. There's a reason why the Parkland shooter slipped through the cracks. It was the most avoidable mass murder in American history... and the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school. -- adapted from jacket and Amazon.com info

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