Parkland Father Offers Advice to Parents in the Wake of Uvalde Shooting

Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the 2018 Marjorie Stoneham Douglas High School shooting, offered advice to parents following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

During an interview with IJR, Pollack explained parents can get involved locally to make a difference.

“Parents need to realize that it’s 2022. Do not send your child to a school without armed security,” Pollack said.

He added, “Parents need to get involved locally with their local school districts and push this cancer out of the 🎓Education system that runs these school districts.”

The school safety activist appeared to be referring to school board members not taking safety as seriously.

He recently tweeted urging parents to find out who is serving on the school board and make sure school safety is “being taken seriously.”

Additionally, during the interview, Pollack suggested parents should “get rid of these people and put like-minded people in there that take your child’s safety to the utmost level.”

The first choice for Pollack is for parents to send their children to private schools, saying they take security “to another level.”

“You don’t hear about shootings in private schools,” Pollack said.

Still, he acknowledged a lot of parents cannot afford private schools and reiterated they should get involved locally.

He noted there are “parents now speaking up throughout the whole country, you got that Moms for Liberty, you got other groups, that are really getting some momentum in this country.”

Pollack used curriculum such as critical race theory as an example of an issue that “woke up a lot of parents to get involved locally.”