Officials said they don’t think they will be able to meet goal of reopening after holiday break
In his first briefing with reporters since the Nov.30 shootings at Oxford High School, Superintendent Tim Throne did not speak Tuesday night to details of what happened inside the community’s high school that day, but did announce classes won’t reopen as soon as school officials had hoped. In a meeting earlier Tuesday at the high school, officials decided they likely wouldn’t be able to meet an internal goal of reopening the high school when students are slated to come off the holiday break in the beginning of January. The high school has been closed since the shooting that killed four students and wounded six others and a teacher. School officials had described the scene inside the school as a « war zone. » « Our main focus, besides sharing in this grieving process, has been on reopening of our schools, » Throne said. Throne and other school officials held the briefing shortly before a scheduled 6:30 p.m. school board meeting. Detroit Free Press journalists are at the meeting and will have updates later. The board will hear a recommendation from Throne to start the process to hire a third party to review what happened in the school.
