Via Sun Sentinel:
A principal who lost her daughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High accused the school district Tuesday of lacking empathy, transparency and an ability to accept blame for the tragedy.
April Schentrup, principal at Pembroke Pines Elementary, told School Board members the district tried to dock her pay for time she took to grieve her daughter Carmen, one of 17 killed during the Feb. 14 massacre. When she tried to ease back into her principal’s job, Superintendent Robert Runcie told her, “this is not a part-time job,” she said, as she held up a portrait of Carmen.
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None of the nine School Board members sent condolence letters or cards or called her family until May 8, Schentrup said, “coincidentally a day after I added my name to speak at today’s meeting.”The only correspondence she received from the School Board was “an email blasted to the entire district saying the mass shooting would be lumped as one tragedy for insurance purposes.”
Runcie offered condolences to the family but accepted no responsibility, said her husband, Philip Schentrup, who also spoke to the School Board.