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From SPS Communications: At Seattle Public Schools, it is our top priority to make sure each and every student is safe. When we have an incident like we did on Oct. 27, where a Center School student brought an incendiary device to school, it is important that we take the time to review how school and district staff respond to these incidents. While we conducted this review, we did place Principal Oksana Britsova on paid administrative leave. The review is now complete and concluded that there were no issues with how Principal Britsova handled the situation. She has returned to school today. However, our review led us to take a deeper look at our procedures and we are working on making some additional improvements in our security communications. Center School staff members have spent time debriefing the incident, and the school’s building leadership team met on Tuesday afternoon to revise the shelter-in-place protocol. Staff will be looking at other...

I am sorry to report that a third victim of the Marysville high school shooting has died.  She was 14-year old Shaylee Chuckulnaskit.  She died yesterday at the hospital.  One male victim, Andrew Fryberg, is still in critical condition.  The other male victim, Nate Hatch, is in satisfactory condition although he had to have surgery on his jaw with more operations to come.  In Center School news about their issue with a student bringing a Molotov cocktail to school, the story from the Times is disturbing.  New info:

Second Update: Per the principal's report to parents (which was very detailed and a good review): The student who had the device had brought it to school and hid it somewhere in the food court area. Another student saw this, picked it up, put in his backpack and brought it to the front desk.  (I appreciate the thought but I wish that reporting student had not picked it up.) The school went into Shelter in Place and then the school was evacuated by SPD (as in a fire drill procedure) and attendance was taken outside.  The rest of the building got emptied by SFD.  The students got cold and were moved to a pavilion to stay warm. The students are to have a "debrief" this morning. Update:   it was a 10th grade boy who brought the Molotov cocktail to school; he was arrested by SPD a fellow student saw it in the arrested student's backpack and reported it to staff no threats by the would-be bomber were made prior to his arrest incident started around 9 am e...