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The principal of Robb Elementary College in Uvalde has been reinstated after being suspended with pay Monday over safety points earlier than the Could mass capturing.
Mandy Gutierrez has been allowed to return to work and her place has been totally reinstated, her lawyer Ricardo Cedillo confirmed to The Every day Beast.
“Vindication shouldn't be what she sought,” Cedillo instructed The Every day Beast.
“She sought merely to be allowed to proceed her efforts to help within the therapeutic course of for the households in the neighborhood she loves. She understands and respects that the grieving course of would possibly contain anger.
“That may be a pure response and she or he respects and empathizes with every thing these affected are going via. She prays for the energy to deal with the therapeutic course of that will probably be extended and possibly endless.”
Gutierrez was suspended Monday throughout a board assembly on the faculty, however on Thursday she acquired a letter from the Uvalde Consolidated Impartial College District superintendent confirming she was allowed to return in “an administrative capability.”
“Thanks for responding to our request for data by submitting your response to the Home Investigative Report. On account of our evaluate, you may be allowed to return to work on this date (July 28, 2022),” the letter from superintendent Hal Harrell learn, per CNN.
“As we mentioned in the present day, with mutual settlement, you'll proceed to serve the District in an administrative capability. Thanks for serving to us as we work via the transition,” Harrell wrote.
The information comes only a day after Gutierrez submitted a letter to the Home committee backing herself and the college over its alleged safety issues.
Within the letter, Gutierrez confirms the door that the gunman is believed to have entered was working and was even checked the evening earlier than the capturing by faculty workers. The door on the time was locked, proving its performance, she wrote. It was then unlocked the morning of the capturing by one of many lecturers “in order that he might enter.”
Gutierrez mentioned she adopted coaching protocol on the day to not use the college’s public handle system to sound the alert because of the truth it might “compound the issue in making a panic scenario with college students and an alert to the a number of gunman that was current to do most hurt.”
She denied that there was a tradition of complacency about safety at Robb Elementary.
“It's unfair and inaccurate to conclude that I ever [became] complacent on any safety situation of Robb Elementary,” Gutierrez mentioned.
“I'll stay with the horror of those occasions for the remainder of my life. I wish to hold my job not solely in order that I can present for my household, however in order that I can proceed to be on the entrance traces serving to youngsters who survived.”