Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

Andrew Pollack · Max Eden

Sep 2019 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

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The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable are being forced into public schools across America.

“After my sister Meadow was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about the type of rifle the killer used. It was all clickbait and politics, not answers or justice. That wasn’t good enough for us. My dad is a real tough guy, but Meadow had him wrapped around her little finger. He would do anything she wanted, and she would want him to find every answer so that this never happens again.

My dad teamed up with one of America’s leading education experts to launch his own investigation. We found the answers to the questions the media refused to ask. Questions about school safety that go far beyond the national gun debate. And the answers to those questions matter for parents, teachers, and schoolchildren nationwide.

If one single adult in the Broward County school district had made one responsible decision about the Parkland shooter, then my sister would still be alive. But every bad decision they made makes total sense once you understand the district’s politically correct policies, which started here in Broward and have spread to thousands of schools across America.”

—Hunter Pollack, “Foreword”

Ratings and reviews

Thank you Mr. Pollack for writing this book. It is amazing to me how little concern there is for school safety, especially by police departments. A few years ago, I learned about a software company in Texas, started by police officers or maybe police officers came up with the idea. I volunteered to sell it to schools and police departments. The first year was free, so they could try it out. This software was put on the computers of teachers and secretaries. When a threat arose, they could just press a digital button their desktop and it would alert the police department and the five nearest patrol cars. When the alert went off in those cars, a map of the school would pop up and the entrance that was open for the police to enter would be indicated. It also showed where the alert had come from along with a map of the entire school. Guess who did not want this system? The police departments; the schools wanted it, badly, but except for the police who created the software, not the cops. Go figure. I have not read your book but I am going to.

A father's campaign to end political correctness and corruption!!

A must read.

About the author

Andrew Pollack was an entrepreneur and businessman with experience in scrap metal, real estate, and property management. Everything changed when his daughter Meadow was murdered. He now dedicates his life to making school safe again, founding a non-profit Americans for Children’s Lives and School Safety (CLASS) and making sure that the families of victims get answers and justice.

Max Eden is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, focusing on education policy. Before coming to MI, he was the program manager for the education policy studies department at the American Enterprise Institute. Eden has a BA in History from Yale University.