OXFORD, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – On November 30, 2021, Oxford High School student, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, opened fire on his classmates, killing four students and injuring seven people including a teacher.

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The calls from parents, the community, students, staff plus many in the state and around the country for some sort of “after-action report” on what went wrong and how to fix it have been loud and continuous.

However, what we received on May 8th from Guidepost Solutions, a company the school district hired, is a 179-page report on the district’s current school safety and security policies and practices, including for threat and suicide assessment and physical security. In the report, regardless of multiple problems that still exist, the company gives the school a “satisfactory” rating.

A second report is currently being worked on by the same company involving the actual investigation into the shooting. The report that was released last Monday says, “This report does not address the district’s school safety and security policies and practices in place at the time of the shooting; interactions with the shooter before the shooting; or actions before, during, and after the shooting. Those areas of investigation will be addressed in a subsequent report, after our investigation of those matters is complete.”

Attorney Ven Johnson, who has sued Crumbley, his parents and the school on behalf of some of the victims and their families, said about the report, “This report is solely about the policies and procedures of Oxford after the fact. A real investigation done immediately, that talks about what went wrong at the time of (the shooting), that’s something that would be really important for people to know about…Oxford Community Schools will do anything and everything to cover up what really happened.”

The school board has rejected free offers from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office to investigate the shooting and opted to pay Guidepost Solutions instead.

Nessel had said in a statement in May of 2022, “My goal is not to assign blame but to help identify ways to improve school safety for Oxford and all schools in Michigan. The school board’s unwillingness to partner with my department on this effort flies in the face of transparency. The rejection sends a message that the board is more focused on limiting liability than responding to the loud outcry from the Oxford community to deliver greater peace of mind to the students, parents and educators that lived through this traumatic event.”

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No information has been given by the school board about how much the Guidepost Solutions reports costs or when the second one will be released.

In the recent report that was released last week, which is titled “Oxford Community Schools Independent Report on Threat and Suicide Assessment and Physical Security” it says “As set forth below, in both threat and suicide assessment (Part One) and physical security reviews (Part Two), Guidepost found OHS’s current policies, procedures, and practices satisfactory and appropriate. With respect to threat and suicide assessment, the District’s policies, procedures, and practices currently in place are robust and satisfy best practices, and its practices at times go beyond what is mandated by existing policies and guidelines.”

However, in the weeds of the report, it is clear to see that the school still has problems – and many of the school’s employees wouldn’t even participate in the report.

When looking at the school and their policies, the report mentions that suicide and threat teams regularly failed to document compliance with policy requiring students be questioned about access to firearms; pointed out that classroom and locker room office doors don’t have interior locks that allow manual locking in case of a potential shooter; the school halted safety drills after the shooting; the school inconsistency screens visitors for weapons after-hours and on days when there are events but no classes in session; the school didn’t require staff to pass through weapons screening equipment; the school hasn’t trained teachers and staff on the new threat assessment protocol implemented since the shooting; and shockingly, it was reported that many district and high school employees refused to speak to Guidepost Solutions employees during the investigation even after receiving a directive from the board to cooperate.

The problems found might make some question on how bad things have to be in order to be downgraded out of the “satisfactory” category that Oxford High School was judged to be in.