education
DEVELOPING: Georgia high school shooter identified as 14-year-old student
UPDATE: School shooter has been identified as 14-year-old student Colt Gray.
A school resource officer was able to get the shooter to surrender moments after opening fire, thus saving lives, authorities said.
Colt Gray, 14, killed four people and wounded nine other people at Apalachee High School, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday.
“The shooter was armed and our school resource officer engaged him,” said Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith. “The shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, it would end with an OIS (officer-involved shooting).”
Gray surrendered and got on the ground and he was taken into custody.
Authorities are not sure how Gray brought the weapon on campus and how he obtained it. Gray was interviewed by investigators, Smith said. Investigators are still trying to determine if anyone was targeted.
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DEVELOPING: Fox News
A shooting at a high school in north central Georgia put the building on lockdown as authorities responded to the scene.
Law enforcement confirmed multiple injuries on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia — approximately 40 miles northeast of Atlanta.
“At approximately 10:23 a.m. officers from multiple law enforcement agencies and Fire/EMS personnel were dispatched to the high school in reference to a reported active shooting,” the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Barrow County Sheriff Judd Smith addressed reporters Wednesday afternoon, providing limited details. Smith said he first received a call of an active shooter at 9:30 a.m. He confirmed that there were “multiple injuries,” but would not confirm nor deny whether there were any deaths.
The sheriff said law enforcement officials were conducting a “very, very fluid investigation” and asked for patience from the media to let them gather the facts. He predicted that it will take “multiple days” to figure out what happened and how.
Smith did confirm that a suspect is in custody, and said they were “in the process” of reuniting students with their parents.
He did not take any questions, but said he hoped to provide more information later in the afternoon.
Footage from the scene showed first responders rendering aid to individuals outside the school, as well as dozens of police officers surrounding the perimeter. The FBI has also acknowledged they are aware of the unfolding situation.
“I have directed all available state resources to respond to the incident at Apalachee High School and urge all Georgians to join my family in praying for the safety of those in our classrooms, both in Barrow County and across the state,” said Gov. Brian Kemp.
“We will continue to work with local, state, and federal partners as we gather information and further respond to this situation,” the governor added.
An elementary school in the suburbs of New York City has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to kindergarten children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school. Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, uses photos of children to introduce “different identities.”
The New York Post reports that the course includes showing kindergarten students photos of other children which are used to “introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” including teaching them about the terms “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary,” according to a message to parents regarding the curriculum.
“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity. The students will learn and discuss that there is a lot you can’t tell about a person by simply looking at them,” the kindergarten level course description reads.
“The students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they notice and what they think they know about the children just from the pictures. Using their observations, we will then take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” the school writes.
The “identity” being taught to children includes discussing “gender and the pronouns that you use,” and that “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender identity can grow too,” as described by the school.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school about the curriculum, to which the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District communications team said that the lessons have been in place for several years and are rooted in “Hillside’s core values of respect and fostering dignity for all students.”
“One 30-minute gender lesson is taught in each class one time per year. The classes are led by a certified educator, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates,” Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to faculty and parents.
“The lessons have been created in alignment with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” he wrote. The school noted that the lessons do not address sex education or sexuality. The school district said that while they usually have the courses posted publicly online, the gender lesson description has been taken off the website since going viral.
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