Most Students in a Georgia School District Hit by a Shooting Will Return to Class Tuesday

Law enforcement and first responders respond to Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024, after a shooting was reported. Four people were killed and nine wounded in the school shooting on Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. “Four dead. An additional nine taken to various hospitals with injuries. Suspect in custody and alive. Reports that the suspect has been ‘neutralized’ are inaccurate,” the bureau said in a social media post. (Photo by CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

ATLANTA (AP) — Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County are headed back to class Tuesday. The return comes six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district’s Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. No return date is set for that high school. But Superintendent Dallas LeDuff says district leaders will welcome the district’s 13,000 students back to a “safe space.” LeDuff says sheriff’s deputies and state troopers will provide extra security when schools reopen, with counseling available at all campuses. Third grade teacher Sabrina Masters Reed says many parents need their children to return so they can go to work without having to find child care.