Many local and national articles have been written about the Oxford, Michigan school shooting, that took the lives of four students, on and after 11/30/21. However, this article is designed to provide some insight as to how schools respond, react, and cover up actions that attempt to absolve them of any wrong-doing.
I want to state that the loss of innocent life is a tragedy and I pray for the families of those who lost a child that day.
This article has solely to do with the school officials, the county prosecutor and the attempted role of the Michigan State Attorney General, in this investigation. This article will also briefly discuss how K12 schools always protect their own, until the shit hits the fan. When chaos strikes, everyone backs into their own corners and attempt to cover their own tracks. In a moment of finger-pointing after an illegal action, many within a K12 environment tend to get diagnosed with amnesia, on the exact same day. Their previous “friendships” or “associations” cease to exist, while no one admits any wrong-doing. As panic sets in, image protection becomes the ‘name of the game.’
The predictable political interference that takes place during times like this, should show everyone that political snakes show up in such moments. Remember their names and remember their faces. After all, it’s the hawks that can see a snake from a hundred yards away. The hawk is always more patient and precise than the snake will ever be.
I want to begin by reiterating my experience with such issues involving American K12 school environments. First, I worked within a very corrupt K12 school environment in the state of Florida, for roughly 10 years. I then became a whistleblower regarding sexual misconduct and physical abuse. This involved the actions of teachers toward students, and witnessing the administrative cover-up that accompanied my contractual obligations of reporting all incidences when they were witnessed and recorded, even to law enforcement.
Second, while in graduate school, I wrote four books on the topics of violence in school and their real causes, after having ten years of school-teaching under my belt. These causes stretch from the school environment itself, right through the mind of an adult employee and attending student. The frame of mind and formal education of K12 employees are also at play and they are also responsible for the levels of violence within K12 environments.
Third, and in short, my dissertation research concluded that educators (both K12 and university teacher-education professors alike) are ill-prepared and unqualified to teach or prevent such violent actions, due to their poor teacher-education programs at the university level, and their K12 “professional development” within their current districts. Both of these “educational experiences” miss the mark, and that’s putting it mildly. In fact, one’s own self-education on such issues are the only signs that someone might be well-equipped to prevent such tragedies before they occur. Unfortunately, many educators fail to continue their learning after the attainment of a degree or employment, because to many there’s no money in it—so why bother?
The number one reason people put up with illegality within the workplace is simple; they fear the loss of their job, via retribution. After all, look what people are willing to do to maintain their employment since March of 2020 (i.e., mask wearing, jab mandates, employment exceptions etc.—which all equate to crimes against humanity).
Sadly, what we are now seeing are the products of Marxism, and the Marxist ideological training that is occurring within teacher-education programs and within K12 environments. Violence and the reactionary response are not exempt from the Marxist ideology. Such programs are producing teachers, counselors and other K12 administrators that seek to “go along, to get along,” “pass the buck of responsibility,” “believe outside, unqualified education programs,” and give more “opportunities” to students, while also thinking to themselves; “I can deescalate all situations through ‘talking’ with students.”
The translations of these approaches are simple: “Keep students in the classroom and within the school environment, don’t write discipline referrals if you can help it, don’t hold students accountable, never expel a student for their illegal behavior, and NEVER call the police.” This is what happens when a Marxist government believes they can be the parent. They always become negligent to the facts and they seek to make excuses for illegal or unethical behavior.
Ladies and gentleman, this is what Marxism has produced; a lack of real accountability, real education, and morally-ethical action.
Briefly, in a nutshell, let me examine the K12 environment itself for those who are unaware. Simply put, when a student farts in a classroom, everyone in the entire school finds out. They find out that same day, within an hour. They find out the name of the student, where they were, what class it was in, how big the fart was and what was the peer reaction. If anyone believes, for one minute, that students, teachers, counselors or administrators did not know that this student (shooter) might be a violent threat, they are lying to themselves and one another. Endless students and staff knew of this soon-to-be-shooters social-media posts too. Allegedly, the school was empty of many students that day, because they knew what might be coming.
This was a student with an alleged discipline record, red-flags on that very day (and the days leading up to the shooting), and countless people knew what was going on. Yet, one of the first people to speak publicly about the incident, after the fact, was the school district’s superintendent Tim Throne (below).
While a K12 superintendent speaking about such an incident is not uncommon, it’s also not recommended because a superintendent runs the risk of putting their foot in their mouth; and that’s exactly what happened here.
After giving a 12-minute speech about the incident and offering condolences, the superintendent also penned a letter, essentially throwing the school counselors under the bus, while absolving any assistant principal or head principal of any wrong doing, because according to him—the administrators didn’t know what was going on. However, the superintendent also wrote that the school’s counselors ‘acted in accordance with their training,’ as this apparently didn’t involve letting the assistant principals or principal know what had transpired before the shooting. Only the school’s deans (who typically handle discipline) and/or the counselor(s), knew what was going on.
With all of that aside, the two major life-altering actions that did not take place were; the searching of the student’s backpack by a school resource officer, and the counselor-approved act of sending the student back to class after the parents alleged refusal to take their child home.
The superintendent even deflected, as did the councilors and the county’s prosecutor Karen McDonald, by stating that they didn’t know where the gun was located. When in fact, the gun could have been only located in one place—the one place they never thought to look. Apparently, at no point was a resource officer contacted to search the student or check the students backpack, nor was the student ever monitored by any law enforcement officer in the building.
Unfortunately, the act of sending a student back to class after a serious suspicion or incident of violence or potential violence, is not uncommon these days. I, too, experienced this over 10 years ago, on multiple occasions. It’s been this way for decades, as schools always seek to lower their discipline referrals any way they can. Sadly, sending such a student back to the classroom also ‘spits in the face’ of the very educator who reported the incident, by undermining their authority to make a logical decision about the safety of other students and potentially themselves.
Typically speaking, the following is what should have happened:
Upon receipt of a student’s hand-drawn, written or typed note (even a social media post) that was descriptive to the point of showing a picture of a gun, bullets and blood; a teacher has the responsibility to tell the school resource officer—immediately (the person with the handcuffs, badge and gun).
Counselors are ill-equipped to handle such issues, because they do not carry handcuffs or guns.
Once the matter is called to a resource officer, immediately upon seeing such a note, drawing or message, the resource officer is to detain the student and call for back-up.
Once back-up is called, the belongings of the student are searched, and the police handle the matter from there.
The school teacher has the responsibility to then immediately contact all remaining parties to tell them what has occurred.
The witnessing party should then speak to (in-person, immediately) the school’s administration first, then they should speak to any counselor who the student might have been assigned to.
Finally, the teacher should email all parties that they spoke to about the incident, listing all of the names involved, and thanking them for speaking with them personally about the issue at hand—involving the identified student.
All of this should have occurred in Oxford, Michigan, in that order—and it didn’t.
I have laid out this exact plan (and many more), in my 2017 book; Violence Among Students and School Staff: Understanding and Preventing the Causes of School Violence. This approach is recommended for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because you want the right person addressing the right issue, and no one can be falsely blamed for saying they didn’t know about what was going on. In essence, the responsibility of the witnessing teacher is to get as many people involved as humanly possible.
Sadly, in the words of leftist wack-job Rahm Emanual, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” With that said, the predictable lockstep-aftermath is now the plan of attack.
For example, the Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald, has charged the parents of the shooter with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. When being asked about charging the parents for such an incident (when such a charge has never happened before), the prosecutor herself even stated with a ‘Freudian slip,’ that she “feels it’s a crime,” and then quickly corrected herself and stated, “It is a crime.”
The Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald (above) is also clearly seeking to rally support for more gun control and in-home gun control for Michiganders, that mimics the current states of Illinois and California and their well-publicized draconian gun laws.
The state’s Attorney General, Dana Nessel, attempted to become involved in investigating any school employees who may have known anything about the incident before it occurred. The Oxford, Michigan community declined the AG’s offer to help in any investigation as of 12/6/21.
The Michigan Attorney General, mind you, is a George Soros favorite, and was at the forefront of denying any and all allegations of blatant election fraud in the state of Michigan in the 2020 Presidential election, even when it was proven (under oath in sworn legal depositions) to widely occur across the state. Needless to say, Dana Nessel is dirtier than a pig in shit, after a wing-eating contest on a rainy day.
I’ve written too many books about school violence and the pin-sized details that lead up to such a negligent event. To repeat them all here would be unnecessary. However, I will tell you this: If school officials do get charged with criminal negligence or criminal misconduct as a result of not doing their jobs (specifically regarding the failure to search the student’s belongings or get a resource officer involved), the national K12-school environment and all of the employees within, will look like the guys standing around the Ark of the Covenant at the end of the movie Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark—when the Ark opens. If a criminal prosecution comes down on school officials in Oxford, Michigan, the faces of K12 educators and administrators across the country will all melt off and explode, because now, every educator and administrator, nationwide, will see what can happen to them personally if they fail to alert any and all parties within a school building.
If any investigator fails to “find any wrong-doing that warrants prosecution of a criminal nature;” then there ladies and gentlemen is your cover-up. The AG even stated herself, publicly, that there would be no cover-up, when se initially offered her assistance. Now, what kind of person actually says that out-loud?
The Oxford, Michigan school district’s administration, the county prosecutor, and the Michigan AG, are all caught between a rock and a hard place, whether they know it or not. This is a lose/lose situation for all parties, including innocent Americans, any way you slice it.
Someone will be let off the hook, and someone will be falsely thrown under the bus. The entire nation will be put on notice for both possible incoming and unnecessary gun-control laws, or warranted possible prosecution regarding a negligent in-school act (which the latter prosecution would be a good thing).
Teachers always quit, in mass, after such an incident. Many students never return. Many students re-enroll either somewhere else or they homeschool after such an incident. These personal actions after the fact, are never reported in the national or local media.
It’s during times like this where the schemers scheme, and the meddlers meddle. The snakes are now coming out of the woods for everyone to see, and God is doing this on purpose. Don’t let the snakes out of your sight nor off the hook. Don’t let any grieving distract you from taking action. Stay focused. Focus on the enemies at the gates, and those within the state and national level.
Now is the time to be vigilant.
BIO: Dr. Sean M. Brooks is the author of several books including; The Unmasking of American Schools: The Sanctioned Abuse of Americas Teachers and Students, and the host of the podcast; American Education FM.