KCPS Superintendent Confronts Parent Concern After Deadly Middle School Stabbing

Local reality check: Local media is being far too kind of this administrator.

Thankfully, parents aren't so sympathetic to Dr. Bedell's political plight to keep a tenuous grip on "full accreditation" that was recently reattained.

Here's the sitch for now . . .

While the district continues to investigate how the knife got past security measures at the school, it is also facing other questions.

Some parents have said they didn't think school should have been in session the day after a homicide on campus.

Bedell explained that decision Thursday afternoon.

"We were very intentional in reopening school the day after because we did not want our students at home, alone, trying to process something as devastating as this on their own," Bedell said. "We felt that there are a lot of loving adults there at that school that these kids have built relationships with and all of those people cane to work the following day to be there for students."

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