Michael Bennett was standing at Scott M. Ellis Elementary School in Greenville, a rural community a half hour from the New York capital on Sept. 5. The superintendent greeted students with fist bumps and an assuring smile.
He was there, in part, because it was the first day of school. But there was another reason: A tragedy gripping another small town a thousand miles away prompted him to make his presence known.
A day before the start of classes at Bennett’s district, an all-too-familiar occurrence in America happened again – another incident of semiautomatic gunfire on a school campus. Two students and two teachers were fatally shot at a high school in a leafy Georgia suburb. Nine others, mostly students, were injured. Law enforcement officials arrested a 14-year-old who is now facing four counts of murder.
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